Le 20/04/2014 20:53, Louis Suárez-Potts a écrit :
But I believe that, however loudly we hear the cry of community, what really determines things for Ubuntu and Fedora is what the sponsoring corporation wants and thinks is in its best interests, or at least those of its financial backers.
Well, yes and no I would think. Yes, best interests of companies linked to distros are at stake. But no, I don't think that is what drove distros to select LibO. My understanding is that LibO team managed to convince distros that AOO would be soon dead. Remember that it was just after the donation from Oracle to ASF. Then followed almost a year of silent work for AOO. I mean very few communication was made whereas LibO released several versions. The lack of visibility was enough I think to convince distros that LibO was the best bet. But the job now is to convince distros that it's not anymore the case. It does not mean that AOO should claim to be default suite again. But there should be a FAIR choice given to the user. It's like the IE ballot on Windows: remember the screen proposing different web browsers to avoid monopolistic installation of IE? There are several free suites, since they are rather heavy (MB point of view), we can't just install 1 component (the word processor, the much used application) of each suite so that the user choose by himself. But why not propose the distros not to install anything by default and then give users a kind of ballot screen for selecting the suite? It would spare some room for the installer BTW. Mobile devices show nowadays that users won't care using command line to install something, they want an application to install easily, that's all. As long as the default application is locked by creating problems for removal, competition is biased. So back to the distros best interests, if it means better user focus/UX, then it may interest them. Hagar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
