Le 16/01/2017 à 18:32, esh1907 a écrit :
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Hagar Delest <delest.ha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
So basically, what is the user base? Who should AOO focus on? For a
company I doubt the price of MS Office is really a problem (they negotiate
fees for sure). Since documents are mostly shared in .docx/.xlsx formats,
why bother with applications like AOO/LO that are not fully compatible? Is
there any big player willing to invest in something to compete with MS
Office to avoid buying it? Doesn't seem very likely
Why bother? because we don't want in the future .docy/.xlsy and then
.docz/.xlsz ...
How do you know there is no big player willing to invest?
When I wrote why bother, I was talking as if I were a company. It's not my
opinion as a user. I doubt that a company would switch to AOO/LO knowing that
there are issues with intercompatibility.
I don't know for sure that there is no big player but if there had been one, we
would have known for some time I guess, just after the code was donated to ASF.
There was some hints on the net IIRC about IBM being interested. But nothing
happened.
Moreover, just read again Raphael's (1st) mail: There are maybe at the moment
no big investors,...
So AOO is left with households, perhaps very very small companies and
education sector. I think that AOO should be the simple choice for schools.
It should offer the peace of mind with no license issue, no need of a
package full of features not really needed but sold efficiently by MS. No
need of permanent internet access, just install it locally.
It should say: here is a rock solid application that can prepare
pupils/student to office software. It is not MS Office but there are enough
similarities to make it a good tool to learn. Like your driving license:
you learn on a car but you can buy something (very) different. You just
have to adapt.
If there is something to make clear, it is the effort needed to adapt from
AOO to MS Office. I'm not saying it should be a clone but just make the
transition as smooth as possible, user point of view.
If you think little of AOO - it will be little...
Sorry, don't understand. If I thought little of AOO (meaning it's not very
powerfull), it would be a huge step on the contrary to adapt to MS Office.
Hagar
PS: can't bear teachers asking my kids to provide homeworks in .docx/.xlsx.
Instead of complaining, why not change that?
For my kids, I try, providing them some rationale to be discussed. I'll raise
the question also during the meetings between parents and teachers.
For all the students who report that in the forum however, there is no way.
Just laziness from the teachers.
But reading again some post of this discussion, I'm wondering if we are not off
topic. I understood 'contribute' not as a money question only. Donating to AOO
directly is not possible so isn't it a dead end?
The only thing I can think of is to use crowfunding to reward devs fixing major
issues or implementing new features. Like give $5,000 to the contributor who
provide the piece of code that fixes the ### issue...
The problem is what happens to the money if no one want to work on it.
Hagar
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