On 2/14/13 1:03 AM, C. Olofson wrote: > I can't speak to licensing terms but with respect to adoption of > anything other than MSO: in my (limited) experience with both companies > and non-profits, most resistance to moving away from MSO comes from the > workers who use MSO.
Resistance to change from users is definitely the bigger barrier to migrations, and this is why a migration project should be more focused on breaking this barrier than selling any feature. I would say that the problem is 80% psycological and 20% technical. > That attitude, in my opinion, is the biggest barrier to LibO adoption; > even bigger than MS' fud machine. Microsoft is working at different levels: FUD on decision makers (with feature comparison, scaring statements on licenses, pressure and lobby, and so on) and lock in features on end users (the ribbon and C-Fonts are lock in features). Microsoft largest expense on Office is the communication budget, which is way bigger than the development budget. -- Italo Vignoli - [email protected] mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP [email protected] skype italovignoli - gtalk [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
