Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Using OpenOffice gets you a free Nokia Phone in Kenya

I was pleasantly surprised when netbook shopping around Nairobi the other day to notice that Safaricom were offering an Acer aspire one @ KShs 27K.
This particular model comes with a 160GB HD and 1GB RAM and comes pre-installed with Windows XP ( yuck! I know, but bear with me ).
In an effort to sweeten the deal, SufferingCom are giving one a free gift, a choice between a copy of Microsoft Office 07 or a Nokia Handset, Now if one chooses to forego the Office 07( logical choice, isn't it? ) and instead use the Free( as in both Beer and Freedom ) OpenOffice suite from Oracle( which has ingested previous OpenOffice patron Sun ), one then gets a free Nokia handset, without having to pirate software or anything and still manage to do all of their Word-Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations et-cetera.

Thank you OpenOffice for the free Nokia and thank you for the Freedom.