Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: two articles about the decline of OOo and the rise of LibreOffice

On 02/15/2011 05:34 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-02-15 12:28, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > The following two articles are about OOo and LibreOffice.
> > Mostly, to me, how OOo is loosing its user base to LO and
> > that OOo is loosing ground with the features that LO now
> > includes in its 3.3 version over OOo's 3.3 version.
> >
> > These two articles make me think that if this type of negative
> > "press" keeps up, Oracle will soon dump OOo as a useless
> > product line.
> >
> > ------------------------
> >
> > Linux, Open Source & Ubuntu: New OpenOffice.org Suite Uninspiring but
> > Adequate
> >
> > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/New-OpenOfficeorg-Suite-Uninspiring-but-Adequate-833544/?kc=EWKNLLIN02152011STR1 
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > New OpenOffice.org Suite: Adequate, but Uninspiring
> >
> > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/OpenOfficeorgs-New-Suite-Adequate-But-Not-Inspiring/?kc=EWKNLLIN02152011STR2 
>
> Now that is funny. It looks like just the same article, just reworked 
> with a different title.
>
> We already have the full article on the LibreOffice in the Press wiki 
> page. Maybe we will just skip the short one.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
The one is short, but the longer one has more info in it.

But these articles are one of the first ones I have seen that
looks like some one else now believes that Oracle has dropped
the ball on their version.  I like the fact that in such a short time,
while LibreOffice people were working on re-coding the core of
the suite to get rid of the legacy code that causes upgrade and
maintenance problems, they still "found the time" to produce a
better 3.3 version than OOo did.  LibreOffice went to RC4, while
OOo went to RC10; so does it mean that LibreOffice has better
programmers, of is it due to their work to get rid of the legacy
code that gave problems to OOo's programmers?

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