On 4/17/19 9:11 PM, Roland Hummel wrote: > "Yes, LO is nice but it won't beat MS Office because in MSO we will have > artificial intelligence".
If the battlefield is functionality, and AI is important,in 2018, the five most important AI programming languages were: * Python; * LISP; * C++; * Java; * Prolog; Two (Three? I'm not sure about C++) are built-in macro languages. LISP and Prolog are easy enough to add. There is documentation on installing and using R as a macro language. Which underscores that the big issue in the functionality war, is not what is available, but rather, the knowledge that the features are available, and how to use them. _TL;DR: Documentation, not implementation._ I'm not sure why being able to grab LinkedIn resumes from within Excel is a good thing, but that is the type of functionality that Microsoft is adding. IMNSHO, this type of functionality is best provided by extension developers. End users can more easily customize LibO, than MSO, etc. > base of any argumentation because it is the only superior starting position > LO has. For most organizations, ethics is nothing more than a feel-good talking point. Something that is neither implemented, nor observed. As such, appeals based on ethical principles fall upon deaf ears. > Starting from software freedom any further argumentation will convince (at > least in societies claiming freedom as fundamental part of a society): > -because LO is freedom respecting it is secure > -because LO is freedom respecting it is privacy respecting > -because LO is freedom respecting it serves the user > -because LO is freedom respecting it is sustainable Neither people nor organizations are concerned about those things, until they discover that their data has been passed on to nefarious third parties, by their software vendor. A white paper showing how LibO meets requirements for various privacy related legislation might be useful here. Whilst such a paper might make LibreOffice Cloud Edition look bad, the quasi-redeeming feature is that the user can control the cloud that it is installed on. > In this way LO will convince governments, companies, the educational sector > and NGOs, The question to be addressed here, is "Who can be sued, if things go wrong?" Whilst Microsoft's _Terms and Conditions_ claim no liability, that doesn't prevent support companies from being sued, when things go wrong. This is where a lawyer is needed, to explain either who could sucessfully be sued, if LibO goes wrong, or why such a lawsuit would not be filable in the first place. >not by trying to convince users in a perspective that is already totally lost >to the proprietary sector ("functionality" The functionality issue will be over, when you can pick up _LibreOffice For Managing you Futures Portfolio: Shorts, Straddles, Puts, and Candlesticks_ at your local Office Depot, or _Asteroid Hunting using LibreOffice_ at your local _Books a Million_. (I've only slightly changed the titles of books about Excel, that I've seen in bookstores.) >aka "but MS Office is so easy to use"). Familiarity, not ease of use. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy