On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de>wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 7:13 PM > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: I think good news from Germany > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jörg Schmidt > > <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: > > >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > > > > > >> > Let us furthermore covert our claim "Productivity Suite". > > >> > > > >> > > >> It sounds like a good, positive article. Would it be > > possible to get > > >> a few sentences, in English, that we could put on our home page? > > >> Today we have a news article, "Italian region adopts > > OpenOffice, saves > > >> 2M Euro" on the right. We could easily have one that > > summarizes the > > >> c't article. Very brief, only a few sentences. > > > > > > At OpenOffice.org we had the slogan: > > > > > > Open. For Business. > > > > > > and I think that fits here as well. > > > > > > > I got a copy of the article. It looks like the summation of it, after > > comparing AOO and LO is: > > > > "Thus, the advantages [of LibreOffice] are restricted to smaller > > modifications. Fundamental innovations such as the Sidebar have the > > developers only copied, from OpenOffice. Because of this it makes no > > essential difference which of the two packages you use for everyday > > tasks. Ultimately the OpenOffice package wins, because its developers > > seem to add new features only when they are running reliably - as you > > would expect from professional developers." > > Yes. > > > I think there are two other aspects in the article and which are: > > (a) > the unsatisfactory quality of LO > > (The article speaks literally of it that many features in the current > version of the program, are so flawed that they can be used very little > sense.) > > (b) > to short release cycles of LO > > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > All interesting comments and thanks for sharing. I couldn't get the full article. :/ Go AOO! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason