On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:56:19 -0500 Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 30-Nov-2013, at 13:01, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > > 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. > > That said, and I agree with Rory, I also think that emphasizing AOO's use by > enterprises and other large-scale entities, would only help. And calling out > South Tyrol's claims wouldn't be bad, either. After all, they do not seem to > be based on anything like fact. > > louis It would be good to start by always refuting the claim that "OO is dead"; our (AOO) claims must always be based on facts, not on the unsupported assertions of ill-informed journalists. In the computer press one cannot (unfortunately) insist on "right of reply", which one usually can get in the newspapers of record. -- 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
