Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Making LibO Remarkable 2

I agree to a point. (IMHO) In the US... The computer is Microsoft and  Word is what Americans use.

I am only talking about the US market. 

I asked the IT department of the #3 dialysis provider in the U.S. (DCI Inc. a 501(c)3 nonprofit 
company. I work at this company BTW. I asked why DCI does not use OOo or LibO and I used the "it's 
free". The answer is DCI has a grant or some other such free deal to use MS Office from Microsoft 
Corp. How can we compete with free MS Office?

The answer IMO.  Create a product that is remarkable

Dave Johnson, USNFR
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On Jan 1, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:

> On 01/01/2011 09:29 AM, Stefan Weigel wrote:
>
> > What concrete benefit do we have from a big market share. What are
> > the disadvantages of less market share?
>
> > From http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto I
> > do not read any reason for competition or fighting for market share.
>
> We are going to promote a concept (software freedom), a project (TDF) and a program 
> (LibreOffice), and if we succeed we are going to grow the market share.
>
> A larget market share brings in more users, more press, more supporters and ultimately more money 
> to grow the project. So market share is very important, although we are not going to aim at 
> market share.
>
> In Italy, we have grown from 3% to over 20% of the office suite market without thinking at market 
> share, but now that the market share is over 20% we have got ink on large dailies with articles 
> bigger that the ones covering MS Office. And this is growing the market share even further.
>
> Market share is a consequence and not an abjective.
>
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