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From: owl on 6 Apr 2010 18:17
In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 <raylopez88(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 10:37�pm, owl <o...(a)rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy RayLopez99 <raylope...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >> Can you define "complex"?
>>
>> > Easy. �Complex is a feature that your opponent in a negotiation has in
>> > their word processing document, that you cannot reproduce because you
>> > are using OO rather than Word.
>>
>> > Got it? �And that means you lose the negotiation, lose the sale, lose
>> > the job, lose your job.
>>
>> Could you outline a scenario where lack of a document feature would
>> cause loss of a negotiation, sale, or job?
>
> Easy. But you're smart enough to do that owl.
>
> I've been involved in multibillion dollar negotiations, teetering on a
> knife edge (buyer/seller last minute remorse), where having the wrong
> font (offensive to the other side) was almost the straw that broke the
> camel's back. If you read Barbarians at the Gate there's a scene in
> there about how a certain aroma of tobacco smoke in a smoke filled
> room was deemed offensive. Imagine now sending a file in OO rather
> than Office that breaks. Hell, that's cause for terminating a
> negotiation even in the best of times, much less when people are on
> the edge of their seat.
>

Sounds like people who don't want to do business with each other to me.

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