Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office

Hi :)
I don't know what words marketing departments for other products use.  

It's just interesting to see SoftMaker being careful to avoid potential problems.  They imply they 
handle DocX better than even MSO can but then add in a disclaimer.  MSO 2010 doesn't always render 
DocX created by MSO 2007 perfectly or precisely.  That's assuming the same machine and the same OS. 
 

So, although their front page makes it sound great i would want to see the results from thousands 
or millions of different peopl using it before really judging it's strengths and weaknesses.  I 
suspect that LO is better but that could be personal bias.  

Simon's answer was the clincher for me 
"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."

So, in my opinion lets just see where they are in a year or so.  

Being proprietary may give them a niche market that LO couldn't tap into.  Imo anything that helps 
pull people away from MSO is good.  Having seen there are viable alternatives my guess is that 
people would then gravitate towards LO.  

Just my 2cents
Regards from
Tom :)  



--- On Mon, 20/8/12, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Monday, 20 August, 2012, 14:41

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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