On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:44:13 +0100 Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Le 27/11/2013 20:23, Rob Weir a écrit : > > Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. > > Well, I also saw this: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=62425 (South Tyrol > government to standardise on LibreOffice) and especially the quote from last > post: "We opted for LibreOffice over OpenOffice because we think this gives > us more guarantees. It has a more consistent and constantly growing community > of developers and by statute has to be independent from corporations," > Pfeifer said. > > LibO is getting more and more momentum (French referential uses LibO too, > something that will be implemented in more and more institutions). I wonder > why AOO doesn't report similar successes. > > Are we lacking marketing power? Or key people? > > Hagar > We are perhaps too polite. We don't indulge in 'slanging matches' with the LibreOffice camp, unlike many of their proponents, who may not be as connected with the main LibreOffice core group, as (for example) list members here are with the Apache setup. We should emphasise AOO's stability; unfortunately any argument for stability or almost anything is very much an 'ad hominem' argument and can be shot down by a vociferous and technically incompetent user (we hae seen many such, both on this list and on the Forum(s)) who 'knows' that a computer is a 'magic box' and expects it to accomodate his incompetence. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
