Re: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free & Libre are bad "selling points"

Hi Tom, all,

Sorry to prolong this, but I *HATE* being misrepresented;

Tom Davies wrote:
> Ok, if  "software freedom" is going to be the only selling point we use then
> England, American and Australia are going to reject the product.  However it
> might make most of Europe more accessible to LibreOffice.
> Regards from
> Tom:)

I *AM* an Australian. The word Libre is as liberating here as any 
Spanish-speaking country.
The concept of freedom, no less prized. The promise of an open-format, 
no less relevant.
You would discount entire countries based on their governance and not on 
the conviction of its people?
Bad market analysis Tom.

> Do other people here "settle for" LibreOffice purely because of it's price?  If
> it cost more would you really all run back to MicroSquish's "superior product"?

I started using OpenOffice.org because I was a poor student unwilling to 
pirate MS-office, out of principle.
I remained a LibreOffice supporter because the idea of people working 
together to make something truly free inspires me.
Both aspects of the word "free" are valuable assets to Lib/O. It is free 
in every sense of the word.
If you don't place any value in that, perhaps your time would be better 
utilised trying to build something you can SELL instead?

And I think it peeves me as much as it did Charles and Italo, perhaps 
countless more,
that it devalues us as a project to refer to competitors so immaturely.
Try "MS", it takes less effort. Your Emails /are /public after all.

-Nik

PS. By the way, whoever came up with THIS --->   "LibreOffice... Freedom 
never tasted so suite" ... GENIUS! =)

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