Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice VS MS Office

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On 21/04/2011 11:51, e-letter wrote:

> A business that receives profits from customers that demand to use M$
software should simply pay the licences to meet their customers'
demands and consider it a cost of doing business.

I can't tell which of the following statements you mean:
* If a company is Microsoft only, it should pay all of the Microsoft
licenses for their vendors;
* If a company is Microsoft only, it should pay all of the Microsoft
licenses for their customers;
* If a company is Microsoft only, it should pay all of the Microsoft
licenses for their suppliers;
* If a company is FLOSS only, it should abolish that position, and use
Microsoft products;

> Any business using open source software to generate a private profit should put their money where 
> their mouth is;

a) Do you know how many employees the "average" business in the united
states has?
b) Do you have any idea how difficult it was for non-Sun clients to get
features and functions added to OOo?
c) Do you have any idea what the learning curve involved in knowing how
to code for OOo was/is?

Those three factors mitigated against organizations that were not in the
IT industry from even considering customizations of OOo, much less
paying for them.

Once two or three organizations offer Level 4 Support for LibO, you'll
see organizations that are willing to pay for the features that they
want/need/desire. That is also when you'll start seeing non-IT
organizations sending their customizations back upstream.

> LO programmers should concentrate on making a good software product;
that should be the priority.

One of the major criteria that businesses use in selecting software, is
compatibility with their existing work-product. In terms of office
suites, that usually means the ability to read, write, and edit
documents in a Microsoft file format as well as, if not better than MSO
can read, write, and edit those documents.

Different organizations define the compatibility line differently.

Personally, I consider microsoft file formats to be "never twice same
output" formats, and hence best discarded.

jonathon
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