Hi :) I think my favourite answer so far has been Alex's. I liked all those stats kinda suggesting that one reason for excluding MS Office from the poll is just that it's sooo unpopular in Linux. Regards from Tom :)
On 8 February 2015 at 18:09, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> wrote: > On 7 February 2015 at 13:22, Jean-Baptiste Faure > <jbfa...@libreoffice.org> wrote: >> Le 06/02/2015 22:02, Urmas a écrit : >>> "Italo Vignoli": >>> >>> You need to understand that there are only two kinds of soft- and >>> hardware: that which solves the client problem at adequate cost, and >>> that which doesn't. Anything else is irrelevant. >> >> You're right. But the issue is how you calculate the costs. For me >> proprietary licenses are unacceptable high costs for office suites. In >> other words, proprietary licenses create problems and do not solve none >> of my problems. > > The FOSS isn't to lower your cost. Freeware and SaaS/Freemium *are*, > among others. > > If FOSS lowers your cost, +1 for FOSS and all, but it's by the way. > Long term it does because absence of issues (vendor lock-in for > example) it addresses as a consequence of its freedoms indeed lowers > the cost. But it's hard to claim that attracting by lowering the cost > was the original plan. > > (you're right if by cost you mean something else than the raw money) > > -- > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek > > KDE: > : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators > : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org > Calligra Suite: > : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org > Kexi: > : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi > Qt Certified Specialist: > : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > 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/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
