In April this year, Microsoft began to implement the "OGA program". Microsoft's so-called "OGA" program is installed in your computer operating system "underlying" installed a monitor, automatically checks that you have a pirated office. If you use pirated office, it continues to embleake you, let you have trouble. If you purchase a "genuine Office", it takes about $ 399 (equivalent to RMB 3,000). If you buy a domestic office suite, such as: Jinshan WPS, Yongzhong Office and Chinese REDOFFICE, they are commercial software products, the price is not cheap, all of which are around 200 ~ 300 yuan. There is only an operating system's PC computer, there is no office suite, obviously cannot "work". So, what should I do?
Today, Bill Gates faded from Microsoft, will exit the software industry, marking the "boxed software" era tend to fall, the gradual rise of the Internet era. This historic evolution process, free / open source software is a catalyst (view of Gartner). The popularity of free software is a historic social engineering.
Any company and social organizations are inseparable from office suits. IBM, Sun, Google and Red Hat Support a office suite called "Free Software", its source is open, free to use, called "openoffice.org". In fact, this "openoffice.org" is a software product name and a software organization name. It is a cross-platform office suite, which can be operated on Windows, Mac and Linux operating system platforms. Whether running in that platform, the function of OpenOffice.org is similar to Microsoft Office. Now, OpenOffice.org is in many markets and many countries, all the "default choices" of the office suite, which is "first choice", such as the government departments of Brazil, Germany, France and India, are all The OpenOffice.org office suite is "first choice". OpenOffice.org is the second largest "general office suite" in the world today. From its primary server download, it is as high as 63 million, which is not the fact that all Linux issues will include it. Our domestic office suite, selling hundreds of thousands of sets, even if it is very unrestrained. However, this universal office suite of OpenOffice.org has not "red fire" in the US and the Chinese market. What is this reason, what should I do?
Free software, how to popularize my country? Relying on the government to talk? I am afraid to hurt domestic software. Relying on enterprise promotion? There is no door at all. So what should I do? Please see the US situation. Everyone knows that Mozilla's Firefox browser, performance is extremely excellent, but it is free software, but also can't sell money. In fact, at the beginning, people did not know that there will be "firefox" in the world. How to do? The Mozilla Foundation is published in Firefox in the New York Times, which is excellent. For a time, Firefox browser downloads up to 10 million times. Later, through the "hot copy" of the relevant media, inadequate, the total download of Firefox browsers was 5 million 5 million. Advertising is required. In the United States, some people imitate the "Firefox Advertising" case, I remembered the idea of advertising OpenOffice.org, attempting to "popularize" it quickly. At the entrance and exit of New York City Subway, there is a free newspaper "Metro" ("Subway"), 330,000 issues per day, probably 450,000 people can see it. After careful planning, some people are ready to be in the Independence Day (July 14) in mid-July (July 14), with "Free Software for A Free People" as the title, in the eye-catching version of OpenOffice.org, Then push the nationwide media. It seems that the effect must be good. In my country, a lot of pre-installed Windows has been set. OpenOffice.org is an international general office suite, in our office suite market, can not have its voice. Needless to say its performance is good and bad, just say it should not exist (especially in our office suite market). The United States promotes Firefox experience and is worth learning. Promoting free software, government departments and companies are not convenient to speak. Because this is not their duty. "Open Source Online" should be responsible for this heavy.
