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Re: And so it continues...

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, James Lampert wrote:

As I recall, some years ago, a major vendor of guitar (and perhaps other
instrument) strings got into a major intellectual property rights
argument with Microsloth. The boss decided to unilaterally eliminate all
Microsloth products from the company, and convert everything --
practically overnight -- to Linux, OpenOffice, and other open-source
products. They had a few glitches at the beginning, but once they got on
top of the learning curve, everything ended up working better with open
source than it ever had with Microsloth.

That company was Ernie Ball (manufacturer of my personal favorite guitar strings even before I heard about the dumping Microsoft completely). Here is an article about what happened:

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/27/021127hnerniball.html

James Rich

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