Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PC world article

Hi :)

The PC World article follows another biased and similarly inaccurate article by 
the same author in November.

Note that at the bottom of the article you can vote yes or no for whether the 
article "was useful" without having to register with them but to post a comment 
you would need to register.  


Generally i avoid registering with sites that happily post such garbage and it 
upsets me that the author got paid for the article.  Most people that post in 
here (even the complainers) put far more work and intelligence into their posts 
but none would expect any kind of payment.

The author has allegedly been writing articles in this IT hobbyist's mag and 
even has written a few "best sellers".  However he seems to have no idea about 
the existence of xml (and possibly html) or java-script.  His review is based on 
installing on 2 machines both of which appear to suffer from user-error in their 
basic set-up.  The 2 'fancy features' in the newer MS Office seem to be avoided 
in most offices i have seen lately, even the adamantly pro-MS ones.

The fact that many people will read and value such nonsense is disturbing.  
Presumably the value is that it re-confirms certain people's limited world view 
without them having to actually have a look for themselves.  I hope we can do 
without such people.  Such people are one of the best reasons for moving away 
from MS imo and i am glad to miss them.

To anyone with even a tiny amount of general computer knowledge the author is 
clearly a fool with a paycheck.  It reminds me of the Mark Twain quote in 
DistroWatch "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to 
open it and remove all doubt." (Mark Twain)

However, it does get people talking about LibreOffice in the mainstream IT.  Is 
there any such thing as bad publicity?  For example by looking up this article 
and voting "No" shows the magazine that such articles are popular and encourages 
them to pay for more similar nonsense.

The work that people do for LibreOffice will far out-last such nonsense as that 
article.
Regards to all from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Leif Lodahl <leiflodahl@gmail.com>
To: marketing@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 26 January, 2011 13:33:38
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PC world article

PCWorld is and has always been very M$ friendly. Perhaps because M$ is a
huge sponsor (adverts).

We have the same situation with a few magazines here in our region.


Cheers,
Leif Lodahl
The Danish Team

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
> l
> 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,
>
> --
> Charles-H. Schulz
> Membre du Comité exécutif
> The Document Foundation.
>
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