Re: [seul-edu] Re: [Fwd: Re: Software for journal publish]

["Jay Sun" <js9s@lycos.com>]

OSS, by its nature, can not emulate Microsoft strategy. Microsoft can get familiarity and preference 
established early and then to allow that perspective to influence later patterns, and then Microsoft can make a bundle. However, even if OSS did all that, nobody can make a boundle, at least nobody know how to yet.  Apache has influence overa all webserver patterns, users like it and save a bundle, who made a boundle? Covalent ? not yet. 

Don't get me wrong, I believe we will find win-win for OSS methodology sooner or later. However, emulating Microsoft marketing strategy is not it.



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On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:31:15  
 jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>>  you should not expect any new recommanded systems closer to your needs 
>> than what we have recommanded already.
>>
>> sad but true
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>i'm not sure this is a good tactic, rhetorically or strategically for 
>OSS.  the education market worldwide is huge, and to make a few 
>competing systems in this category for open use could explode the 
>market, providing a backdoor to other markets.  that is in part 
>microsoft's strategy in education, to get familiarity and preference 
>established early and then to allow that perspective to influence later 
>patterns.  sure academic publishing is not an arena that will 
>necessarily affect many students at first, but over time it could 
>especially as other parts of the market come to the fore, like open 
>encyclopedias, open textbooks, etc.  in any case, we'll see where it all 
>goes.
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