A good criticism of Open-Source was Andrew Brown's piece at the Guardian.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1660763,00.html
But, even he believes the OpenOffice.org "Writter" is superior to "Microsoft Word". The other bugs and limitations Andrew rants about in 1.x, were fixed in OpenOffice 2.x
Further, Andrew never saw OxygenOffice Professional, which has all the fatware, Clip art, document templates, help wizards, fonts, color-pallets, and back-end hooks for running MS VBA & Access databases.
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=666046 OxygenOffice remains free, under the same GPL described in context at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org This wikipedia shows the OpenOffice market included 14% of Large Enterprise, and 19% of smaller business in 2004/5. Further, the governments of France, India, and Singapore prefer the maturity of this Open-Source product.
I do recall, Microsoft was recently fined by French courts for ignoring some of their local laws. Maybe these governments are reacting to this disregard for their laws?
I'm having visions of Black beard, and his last stand against the Royal navy, if the Captains of this Industry remain fixed in their ways.
