Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PC world article

Hello Charles.

I am just a new guy here, but I'd like to give a little opinion:

I think that just one day is a too short time to make a real valid opinion
about the whole suite. I can be wrong, but much of the article is a little
tendentious.

However, there some interesting issues in it. He (the author) talks about
something like Ms sharepoint or Google Docs. LibreOffice has some extensions
to play that role. I can cite GDocs and Wikipublisher, for example (Am I
being too naive?).

I use LibreOffice at work, at a public company in Brazil. Almost everyone
here (500+ workers) use this office suite, so I just don't understand why
should the company rely on a journalist recommendation. Despite some people
follow "opinion makers", most of the companies follow their own interests.

The problem with the horizontal scroll bar, he told, I couldn't reproduce in
my computer (I am using Ubuntu 10.04). I couldn't see any JRE erros until
now on my system, related to LibreOffice.

I haven't experienced all of the suite until this moment, and I think it's
gonna take a month, at least, for me to make an opinion about it, because
it's a very complex application.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Rgds.


2011/1/26 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>

> Hello,
>
> the coverage of LibreOffice 3.3 is generally good, and the span of the
> coverage (the number of written articles) is excellent.
>
> Anyone , any journalist is entitled to his/her own opinion, but this
> article is somewhat problematic. I usually read these articles and
> their comments carefully. They are often good sources to understand the
> "outside" perception of an OSS project or product. Yet I don't manage
> to find one point that is not sheer and free criticism of LibreOffice
> in this one.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/217679/libreoffice_33_handson_with_the_free_office_suite.html
> My question might be naive so bear on with me: how can we avoid this
> amount of crap ? "it's really only good for Open Source Developers but
> not in real life" That's not journalism that's prejudice. "I miss
> SharePoint"..WTF?
>
> Your comments are welcome (note: I might have taken the issue in a
> completely wrong way).
>
> Best,
>
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