Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: "selling points"

On 1/10/11 10:27 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-01-10 15:47, Johannes Bausch a écrit :
> > I think LibreOffice could sell very well if it would not communicate
> > "we're like MS Office, but not as good as them". That's what
> > OpenOffice always did (and does). Compatibility is important when it
> > comes to the file format, but not when it comes to the program itself.
> > You can open psd files with gimp, but still gimp does not look and
> > feel like photoshop (ok I know it's not 100% compatible but I think
> > you get my point).
>
> Yes, you have a great point. IMO the attitude we should have is that we
> are just the best suite around and people will want to imitate us. There
> is no looking back but just looking forward. We will make a suite with
> interoperable formats but our ODF will be the format that is used by our
> community and once people try it, they will simply discover what we
> know, it is simply the best suite and format combination to use.

Compatibility is a key feature, but OOo has never been marketed as a "we 
are like MS Office, but not as good as them". The problem is that in the 
Americas has never been marketed. In Europe, no one - apart Sun and now 
Oracle - has ever pronounced this sentence.

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