Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Awkward article.

On 10/31/2012 09:44 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> Il 31/10/2012 14:19, Florian Monfort ha scritto:
>
> > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2012/10/libreoffices-dubious-claims-part-i-downloads.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+robweir%2Fantic-atom+%28Rob+Weir%3A+An+Antic+Disposition%29
> Of course not. Rob Weir is our main enemy, and has always been such (you
> can dig a little bit inside his blog). He represents IBM mood, and this
> is just a proof that TDF and LibreOffice are more successful than Apache OO.
>
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I just do not like to see such an article.  I rarely see such a strongly 
biased article/site.  I will take an unaffiliated article writer's 
claims over this type of article.

You can tell this person is a rabid [marked by excessive enthusiasm for 
and intense devotion to a cause or idea] with the AOO promotion and anti 
LO.

The problem does arise with his claims though.  We need a good way to 
track numbers for NEW users.

ALSO
how many of the people he claims to be AOO users are not a part of the 
Apache "system" of users/developers/etc.  Apache is a big group and can 
promote its associated packages much better than LO can do. How many of 
the people who download AOO are still using it or have tried it to see 
what it is like.

The only think the article really brings to light is we need a better 
figure for the amount of current users.

How many downloads did 3.5.7 get?  3.6.2 get?  Linux users are the hard 
part, as always.  When you get LO from their repositories, instead of 
the LO download pages, it is hard to capture numbers from there.

I do wish there would be a good way to get the figures to "correct" that 
person's claims.

One thing this article did not state, which other non-affiliated one 
did, was that a lot of AOO's improvements came from LO's code and 
improvements.  LO took the OOo code and really worked hard to make it 
much better and this AOO person may think that AOO did all the work 
themselves.





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