Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

Hi Immanuel,

Immanuel Giulea wrote (01-01-13 16:15)
> So, back to my original question and I'll try to rephrase it:
>
> If not for the differences in licences, why should end-users choose LO over
> AOO when migrating away from MSO? How is LO a "better product"?

Yes, this is an interesting question, because we want to offer the users 
the best possible. However I tend to agree with Tom: moving away from 
MsOffice is most important. So when we would explicitly start comparing 
with Apache OO, that could distract from the most important step, cause 
unnecessary rouse and so more.

Still, there are obvious reasons why LibreOffice is better.
The features pages
  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/
  (and the others)
show many advantages.
Also community wise, since IBM has chosen to merge their Symphony 
product with Apache OO, that is going to have a considerable impact the 
next year or maybe longer. All that work will leave less room for 
possible new development, cleaning up, improving old code. And knowing 
the speed at which LibreOffice grows...
Of course we do not know what the future will bring, but still.

So wouldn't it be enough to make a short description such as for example:
"LibreOffice was started in September 2010 as a free-making of the 
OpenOffice code in an independent organisation - The Document 
Foundation. Since then LibreOffice has seen much improvements, new 
features and a more attractive appearance. "
Details about licences, growing number of developers and so more are not 
so relevant for users that we want to introduce LibreOffice.
And people that want to compare Apache OO and LibreOffice could do so 
themselves based on (information that points to) features.

What do you think?
Regards,

(PS Let's make it a good habit to speak about LibreOffice as much as 
possible, and not LO or such - name recognition is a good thing)

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