Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] BrOffice product and community will be called LibreOffice

On 04/23/2011 03:21 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> On 4/23/11 10:07 PM, Riemer Thalen wrote:

I agree 99% with Italo, and lurking here for 6 months I have seen the 
great job he has been doing.  However, there are two things I don't 
think are quite right.

First, I don't think it is good etiquette to respond to private mail to 
a public mailing list, unless one is reasonably sure that the original 
sender wouldn't mind.  I sympathize with Italo's reasons for doing so, 
but still, I'm not sure I would have gone public with someone's private 
complaints.

[...]

> > Italo, I will unsubscribe and bother you nomore. I trust you will crush
> > MSO with a free top-notch product and superior marketing.
>
> We will never crush MS Office, because we do not need to crush any
> product. We believe that FOSS has a superior model, which is good for
> many but not for everyone, and we are happy with our choice.

I think the health of our community depends inherently on more people 
choosing to use LibO.  This means we should not be happy with a 
never-ending stream of people dropping LibO and choosing MSO because of 
some feature.  Linux, perhaps the best example of a wildly successful 
open source project, was promoted by Linus Torvalds with the 
tongue-in-cheek goal of "world domination" -- linux wanted more desktop 
share.  And we should want more office suite share.  That is the best 
way to grow the LibO community and to keep LibO development, support, 
and marketing areas vibrant.

     ----Jon

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