Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-10 Thread Jan Høydahl
ations to users themselves. >> They will presumably know what is most important to them. >> >> Since Office 2007 is also no longer of interest to those who do not have it >> already, I agree that there is not much point in making any observations >> about Office 2007 either. &

Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-10 Thread donaldupre .
The "Why" page is important and shouldn't be discarded. The advantages over MS Office are obvious... It is far less obvious how AOO is currently better than LO / Gnome Office / Calligra Suite. The references to scientific papers in Gnumeric home page are a good example for a convincing "Why" page.

Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
is not much point in making any observations > about Office 2007 either. > > > - Dennis > >> -Original Message- >> From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] >> Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 14:05 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subjec

RE: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
nal Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 14:05 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org > > Jan Høydahl wrote: > > Yes, remove the Office 2003 EOL page > >

Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jan Høydahl wrote: Yes, remove the Office 2003 EOL page That page was written to have a SEO-friendly resource for people who were looking for options to upgrade from Office 2003 back at the time. It can probably be retired since it served its purpose. But also consider rephrasing these two

Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-09 Thread Jan Høydahl
; -Original Message- >> From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] >> Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 04:59 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org >> >> >> >> On 01/08/2016 07:28 P

RE: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on removing the page. > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 04:59 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org > > > > On 01/08/2016

Re: Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-09 Thread Carl Marcum
On 01/08/2016 07:28 PM, Jan Høydahl wrote: Hi I filed bug https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126777 about outdated WHY sub page "Office 2003 EOL”. See issue for details. Dennis requested that the discussion continues in this mailing list. My initial concern was that an outdated web p

Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-08 Thread Jan Høydahl
Hi I filed bug https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126777 about outdated WHY sub page "Office 2003 EOL”. See issue for details. Dennis requested that the discussion continues in this mailing list. My initial concern was that an outdated web page looks really bad, referring to 2014 as a d