On 02/12/2013 04:06 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
We should not worry about what MSO or MS Windows does. Sure we should
know what they are doing, and what good and bad ideas they come up
with. But why worry? TDF/LO will never have even 1/10th of a percent
of the developers as MSO has. We do not have people who's only job is
to write and rewrite code for LibreOffice. We have volunteer
developers and businesses that supply talented developers to help
improve our free and open source product. FOSS. Bill Gates makes
jokes about free software and communities. So why bother worrying
about what they might produce and how we can compete in their "one
sided" market.
We will never be able to compete with MSO in the entire marketplace
that MSO is in. We do not have to. LibreOffice and other FOSS
products are in a smaller part of that larger market. We cannot truly
compete in the market for the office suite of the Forbe's top 500
companies. We should not even try. We have gone into the smaller
"niche" markets that need an office suite that is going to serve this
market's needs. Of course, it is always good for LibreOffice when a
company, or government, gets fed up with MS's policies and look for a
different, and maybe better, solution for their needs. How many
cities and governmental "communities" have dumped MSO and joined the
FOSS movement? LibreOffice server their needs. We were freely chosen
over MSO.
Yes, we will alway look and see what MSO is doing. Yes, we will alway
want to know what our users will want from LibreOffice in the form of
options that could be included to make it better. NO, we should not
worry what MSO is doing and worry if we do not have a product that has
a one-to-one option list as in MSO. Yes, the may do some things
better than LO. How long have they been in business to develop and
market their office product? LO has been doing this for less than 3
years, as its own organization. So why worry. TDF/LO is growing and
improving on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Spend time and
effort in that, and not worrying over what MSO it doing.
+1 MS will whatever they want to do. We should not lose focus on what we
as a community are trying to do which is produce a solid FOSS office
suite available to all users and meets their needs. We have enough work
to do.
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