Hi Drew, Le Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:56:49 -0500, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> a écrit :
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:26 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the coverage of LibreOffice 3.3 is generally good, and the span of > > the coverage (the number of written articles) is excellent. > > > > Anyone , any journalist is entitled to his/her own opinion, but this > > article is somewhat problematic. I usually read these articles and > > their comments carefully. They are often good sources to understand > > the "outside" perception of an OSS project or product. Yet I don't > > manage to find one point that is not sheer and free criticism of > > LibreOffice in this one. > > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/217679/libreoffice_33_handson_with_the_free_office_suite.html > > My question might be naive so bear on with me: how can we avoid this > > amount of crap ? "it's really only good for Open Source Developers > > but not in real life" That's not journalism that's prejudice. "I > > miss SharePoint"..WTF? > > > > Your comments are welcome (note: I might have taken the issue in a > > completely wrong way). > > > > Hi Charles, > > That would be bad if he wrote that, but I can't find those words in > that article anywhere? > > //drew > on SVG: "For example, Writer can now insert scalable vector graphics (SVG) images. You can edit SVG graphics in the Draw graphics editor too. SVG is liked by open source programmers because it's an open standard but it sees little use in the real world outside of Web browsers." On Sharepoint and his love for MS Office: "But that's about it. It's very hard to find anything to write home about. Arguably the biggest additions to Microsoft Office in recent years have been OneNote, the fantastically useful note-taking application, and SharePoint Workspace, which allows collaborative working. Sadly, there's just nothing like either in LibreOffice 3.3. It's a release that would have been stunning in 2000, but is now slightly anachronistic and dull." This is also interesting: "Another programmer friendly feature is that Writer can now "load and save ODF documents in flat XML to make external XSLT processing easier." I've no idea what that means. I suspect it's to do with exporting documents to archiving systems. Calc now supports up to one million rows, again arguably useful only to people that use spreadsheets for serious data wrangling." and generally speaking: "The biggest disappointment is the lack of any cloud tie-in. How a major new release of any office software can lack this is a mystery. The rather pompous manifesto of the Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, makes absolutely no mention of the cloud." My beef with this article is not the critical point of view. It's just that anything is criticized with almost no intelligence and that this is no "Cloud Fan" nor "MS Office fan" talking: it's both, but it somehow does not make sense at all. (I want Onenote! your stuff is too easy! no, it's too complex! I want Google Docs!) Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
