The "Why" page is important and shouldn't be discarded. The advantages over MS Office are obvious... It is far less obvious how AOO is currently better than LO / Gnome Office / Calligra Suite. The references to scientific papers in Gnumeric home page are a good example for a convincing "Why" page.
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > Hi > > I filed bug https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126777 about > outdated WHY sub page "Office 2003 EOL”. > See issue for details. Dennis requested that the discussion continues in > this mailing list. > > My initial concern was that an outdated web page looks really bad, > referring to 2014 as a date yet to come signals that noone actively cares > for the web page. > > Then there is the policy issue of mocking competitors. You find several > passages in the “WHY” section talking about Microsoft Office and cost. > Perhaps someone should give the whole WHY section some love and care and > make sure we are well within Apache policies. > > Thanks. > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
