Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office

On 08/20/2012 09:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Interesting choice of words to describe how accurately it read/writes DocX.  Instead of saying "accurately" or 
> "precisely" they carefully choose to use the word "faithfully".  A slightly more "woolly" word that lets them 
> get away with errors that are likely to appear.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
What terminology do others, such as Google Docs, use? I suspect they are 
using this terminology to avoid lawsuits from people who do not realize 
msox formats are proprietary when as you note the inevitable gibberish 
occurs.
> --- On Mon, 20/8/12, Simon Phipps <simon@webmink.com> wrote:
>
> From: Simon Phipps <simon@webmink.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office
> To: "Florian Monfort" <florian.monfort@gmail.com>
> Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 20 August, 2012, 12:15
>
>
> On 20 Aug 2012, at 10:37, Florian Monfort wrote:
>
> > Is it any good compared to LibreOffice ?
> >
> > Wanted to have your opinion !
> >
> > http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm
> It does not appear to be open source, so it does not offer its users either a guarantee of 
> continuity or any of the other benefits that arise from software freedom.
>
> S.


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