Karoly,
That's the text you should read about our marketing strategy. Not
because I wrote it (it's only the report of a meeting and decisions)
but because you'll find many questions answered there about where we go
and how we work. Also, we do have marketing conference calls on a
monthly basis (at least we try):
http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2012/10/21/marketing-workshop-2012/
Best,
Charles.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:28:05 +0100
Károly Papp <pkaroly82@gmail.com> wrote:
I have to argue with Charles.
Although I am a new subscriber on this list (a great team so far :)
), I have a different point of view.
LO has to compete with MSO on a feature by feature basis, since
people who are using MSO now could turn their eyes on LO. And what
will they ask? "Can it do it?" And if there is something that you
can't do, they won't make the change. And that will be a nail to Free
Software's coffin.
On the other hand I completely accept Charles's point of view about
"featureset + support + availability + community + FOSS + contributing
ability". THAT is the advantage that matters. But that is the thing
that doesn't (yet) fully works. I can't easily find any promotional
stuff, and that hurts pretty much. And no educational material. Try
it. Google for "learn microsoft office" and next google for "learn
libreoffice". See the diference?
And no, we won't see MSO on Linux. :)
K
2013/2/12 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>
Hello,
timofonic timofonic <timofonic@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hello.
As some of you probably know, there are rumours about Microsoft
porting Microsoft Office to Linux. While this may not happen,
there's the possibility this can someday happen.
What about if it happens? What are the advantages of LibreOffice vs
Microsoft Office? Despite being Free Software and at no cost
(that's relative, you would still require some customer support
too), I wonder about the rest of advantages LibreOffice have and
if the weak points are relevant to certain organizations (NGOs,
companies, government institutions...).
You know, Libreoffice is already competing on the same terms on
Windows. In general, trying to find out what specific product value
might be differentiating might not be too helpful. We are not
competing on a feature by feature basis, but rather on a community
and global value, something like featureset+ support+ availability
+ community + FOSS + contributing ability. All this put together is
a bit difficult to express in marketing terms, aside by using and
promoting our community, hence our decision not to do traditional
marketing.
But on MSOffice on linux I wouldn't be too worried :-)
Best,
Charles.
--
Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté.
--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to
marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages
sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
--
Charles-H. Schulz
Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation,
Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24.
--
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org
Problems?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
deleted