Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article

Hi :)
At one place i work, a charity, they have been able to buy legit copies of MSO 2010 for £20 rather 
than the usual approx £100.  Word is unable to handle making the Newsletter and LibreOffice can do 
it with much more finesse but even though i have installed LibreOffice on their machines they 
prefer to work with Word and it's glossy new ribbon.  

On the older machines MSO 2007 was desperately slow.  Opening a document requires taking a 
tea-break or falling asleep.  LibreOffice just opens stuff before even drumming fingers once.  

They seem to think that if the proper price is £100 than it must be a lot better than something 
that is free despite the evidence.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 19/10/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article
> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 1:11
>
> There is only one person that I know/met/talked-with
> locally, for sure that uses Linux and it is maybe 3 for
> Mac.  Everyone else is a Windows person.  Every
> one of them that I have a relationship with, I have done my
> best to get them to try LO.  Only one I did not push,
> since he had several large personal Access databases built
> with MSO 97. [Pentium II computer]  When I gave him a
> free P-III computer, I had to find a copy of MSO, since he
> lost his copy I gave him all those years ago, since I went
> to MSO 2003.  He just could not deal with using LO for
> his database files, for now.  When I find him a free
> P-4 machine with enough spare drive space, I will have both
> MSO and LO on that system for him to use.
>
> So, he is the only one of all the Windows users that told
> me that they would not give LO [OOo before January] a
> try.  Many of these people have dumped MSO entirely,
> while others use MSO when OOo/LO does not work "properly"
> for them, and only a few are only using MSO at this time.
>
> So I know if we can get the software in their hands,
> install it for them if we must, they will give it a
> try.  I just wish I could get the local schools to
> include LO, but they have these big budget MSO contracts
> that they "cannot" get out of.  Also since "everyone is
> using MSO" then they have to teach on that package. 
> Well the parents, students, and anyone else who has to buy
> MSO at their high prices [who do not need to deal with
> Access] would be happy to find a package that does what they
> need and saves the files in MSO file formats for the
> teachers, that is free and is becoming better and better
> every few months.
>
> The problem is how to get the word out to the masses. 
> With my stroked-out brain, I am not a public speaker. 
> If I was, I would "hire" the lecture hall at the main branch
> of the Library system to do a demonstration of LO and hand
> out free copies.  Then have an ad in every library
> board and every free posting place [respectable ones] to
> give the date, time, etc..  The problem is I am no
> longer able to talk my talk anymore.  I could barely do
> it before my last stroke, and I did one on Web page creation
> for personal use.
>
> I sure could use some ideas to get the local users of MSO
> to know about our free alternative.
>
> On 10/18/2011 06:03 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> > On 10/18/11 6:51 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
> Productions wrote:
> > > For Windows users, we need to find some way to get
> into shows and such
> > > to convince these users to use LO.  If we can
> somehow get some of these
> > > Tech magazines to include LO in one of their
> included CD/DVD of software
> > > that seems to come out every so often, we might
> pick up a few [or many]
> > > users.
> > We already reach covermount CDs in several countries,
> and we should add
> > editors in all countries. People can help in building
> a mailing list by
> > sending us email address of editorial staff of
> magazines with a CD (the
> > address is usually printed somewhere on the editorial
> staff page).
> > > It would be nice if we somehow could get some
> banner ad time on Google,
> > > or other place that people go to often.  I do
> not deal with the social
> > > networks, but there has to be some way we can get
> the word out to the
> > > Windows users.
> > Addressing Windows users take more time than Linux and
> MacOS. Downloads
> > are slowly increasing, and this show the increasing
> interest of users.
> >
>
>
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