Re: [libreoffice-marketing] "selling points"

I think LibreOffice could sell very well if it would not communicate
"we're like MS Office, but not as good as them". That's what
OpenOffice always did (and does). Compatibility is important when it
comes to the file format, but not when it comes to the program itself.
You can open psd files with gimp, but still gimp does not look and
feel like photoshop (ok I know it's not 100% compatible but I think
you get my point).
Just my opinion.

2011/1/2 Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com>:
> On 2 January 2011 07:42, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Ok, if  "software freedom" is going to be the only selling point we use
> > then
> > England, American and Australia are going to reject the product.  However
> > it
> > might make most of Europe more accessible to LibreOffice.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us@gmail.com>
> > To: marketing@libreoffice.org; marketing@us.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Sun, 2 January, 2011 4:37:48
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Making LibO Remarkable 2
> >
> > I agree to a point. (IMHO) In the US... The computer is Microsoft and  Word
> > is
> > what Americans use.
> >
> > I am only talking about the US market.
> >
> > I asked the IT department of the #3 dialysis provider in the U.S. (DCI Inc.
> > a
> > 501(c)3 nonprofit company. I work at this company BTW. I asked why DCI does
> > not
> > use OOo or LibO and I used the "it's free". The answer is DCI has a grant
> > or
> > some other such free deal to use MS Office from Microsoft Corp. How can we
> > compete with free MS Office?
> >
> > The answer IMO.  Create a product that is remarkable
>
> It's simpler to target markets where you have a chance of getting in. There
> are plenty of them. Go for low hanging fruit first.
>
> Of course we could produce the killer smartphone version of LO and open up
> many more computing devices than PCs running Windows but that is likely to
> take years of development time so in the short term we already have a
> product that is remarkable and we can incrementally improve it but then
> again so will the competition. So don't waste energy on markets that are
> very difficult and concentrate on those where there is a good chance. If we
> are forcing the competition to reduce their costs to customers we are doing
> the world a favour in any case.
>
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