The Real Office
Once upon a time there were some little office user. Using office all day long. Exchanging files with other little office users. In those days, only one office program was known, so sharing the files was a real no-brainer.
They all lived in a small village in the middle of Happyland. Then suddenly, from one day to the other, the sharing of files got more complicated. Some little office users had updated versions of the software, some not. Some could afford more expensive computers with yet another version of the software. Now sharing files got complicated, and for some little office users, almost impossible. When they complained, they only were told to pay more money for ever more updates. Buy new software that promised to make their own documents compliant to what they had been before. The little office users grumbled a bit, but as they did not know better, they gave in.
Until:-- one day a strong wind blew a fairy from the nearby open land into their village. It was a free fairy, and she had a magic wand that made the sound of foss, foss, fosssss, whenever she waved the wand.
Well, you kids all know for sure what a kind of free fairy that was. The villagers of Happyland gathered together and listened to the fairy's words. They learned about free and open software, and they wondered how they could have ever lived without. So this fairy story about software ends here.
Wait for more fairies to come.
And they lived happily ever after.