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Focusing on what’s similar, not what’s different

When you talk to people about switching from a commercial application to a free or Open Source alternative, they invariably get hung up over the differences. The interface is different, the hot keys are different, the icon to launch it is different. ad infinitum. I think that some of the time, not taking the time to learn a new application is one of the bigger barriers to the adoption of FOSS.

Instead of concentrating on how a particular piece of FOSS software differs from its commercial counterpart, this blog post looks at the similarities. In this case, 30 similarities between OpenOffice.org Writer and Microsoft Word.

I wish more people would write blog posts and articles like this.

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