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On 08/16/2012 10:36 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I am not sure about current usage levels but 2 areas that Sun had problems trying to break into were
1.  Windows users
2.  US and England etc
Europe, Brazil and many other places were quite happy to use a product that wasn't primarily about 
making huge profits for a certain US company.

There is always a risk, when going for new markets, of losing stable and existing loyal customers.  
Would gaining a lot of Windows users annoy the Gnu&Linux users so much they would leave?

(It might be worth noting that the "extremist" group (probably not the way extremist is usually used these days), 
the "Free Software Foundation" and Richard Stallman backed LO where they would never back OOo (OOo is what AOO 
used to be called under Sun) so i doubt Gnu&Linux users would leave!  More likely the opposite and tons more would 
continue to keep joining.)

Regards from
Tom :)
My observation is that LO/AOO will be your default office suites for Linux users because we support ODF and MSO file formats as well as many others. While MSO formats can be problematical, they are extremely common.

For Mac and Windows users, you have more options both commercial and FOSS that support MSO file formats. IMHO the problems here are lack of awareness and the perception of "geekiness" being required to install LO. Many Windows users rely on friends or family to help maintain their systems, install software, etc. I suspect most LO users are more comfortable with working on their system since LO requires a user install of either LO itself or the Linux distro. Note, I am not saying installing LO is difficult but that many potential users are afraid to personally install any software on their computers. Installing LO makes one a comparatively advanced computer user; you can actually install software on a computer.

IMHO, the real problems for LO are the overall size of the user base, reliance on word of mouth marketing, and lack of support by hardware vendors. The user base size means that many potential users are unaware of LO and have never seen it used. There are regional differences where LO is stronger. Word of mouth advertising is actually very effective but not necessarily very fast. Most hardware vendors (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) do not normally install LO on the retail machines but often install a crippled/trial version of MSO. This may change if MS continues to move into device manufacturing, hardware vendors may promote/install other products to avoid supporting MS.


--- On Tue, 14/8/12, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> wrote:

From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Reply settings on this list have changed
To: "anne-ology" <laginnis@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mark LaPierre" <marklapier@aol.com>, users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 14 August, 2012, 1:03

I primarily use SUSE but also osx and win. I support Anne.
If (as an example only) 80% of LO potential is win based and this is the
target for growth then to be non-exclusive and encourage advancement in
the win platform the support list should cater for the most common win.
mail applications. Browser (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.) or outlook.

If we are trying to stifle growth and keep LO in the linux club, then
make it easy for linux users and less convenient for others.

Steve

On 2012-08-14 11:55, anne-ology wrote:
          you're mis-informed; I, for one, have never used a Linus-based
machine; and I bet I'm not the only one.



On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@aol.com> wrote:

On 08/12/2012 12:31 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,

this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have changed
(so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled).

So far, e-mails had set a reply-to the mailing list address. In other
words, with any e-mail client, replies to e-mails on the list were
automatically sent directly to the list.

In the past, this lead to two major problems:

1. Several times, people have sent direct replies to the public list,
where deleting them is nearly impossible. I remember at least one case
where confidential information has been sent out that caused lots of
worries for the sender and his employer. This happened because people
hit "reply" and thought it would reply to the sender only.

2. I have heard complaints in the past from people, stating that working
with the non-developer lists of LibreOffice is a pain for them, because
of reply-to mangling, resulting in a lack of communication. This also
led to the fact that numerous tasks were done by the same people, who
needed to spend more and more time, instead of sharing the work burden
with others. While I do not fully believe this argument, there's just
one way to find out...

Therefore, I have applied a change:

Replies to e-mails from the list now only go to the original sender. You
either need to use the "reply to all" feature of your e-mail program, or
- preferably - the "reply to list"/"reply to group" feature, which will
direct replies directly to the list.

This is common practice on most mailing lists, and even the default
setting for our mailing list software, so we did not re-invent the wheel
here. Those seeking for details should have a look at
http://www.unicom.com/pw/**reply-to-harmful.html<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>

I know we had numerous discussions on this topic in the past, but the
outcome was that roughly 50% were for this change, and 50% refused it,
so I am really sitting between two chairs here, for which I beg for your
understanding. On the one hand, those complaining the lists are unusable
with reply-to mangling, on the other hand, those complaining the lists
are unusable without reply-to mangling. Unfortunately, combining those
two, even on a per-recipient basis, is not possible, so they are
mutually exclusive to each other.

In order to find out the real impact, I simply changed the setting, and
again, I beg for your understanding.

Do not worry: The mailing lists are for the community, so it's the
community deciding how they should work. What I'd like to ask all of you
is to try out for a few days if that change is good for each list or
not. Should we find out it is more harmful than it helps, I will
immediately switch back to the old behaviour.

Sorry for this short notice, and I beg for your understanding that I'm
somehow sitting between two chairs here.

Florian


Hey All,

Not trying to be rude.  All of you should be smart enough to run an email
tool.  After all you're all Linux users who administer at least one Linux
installation.

For those of you having trouble with email filters try filtering on
"libreoffice-users" in the subject line.  That should get all your email to
the right folder.

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Registerd Linux user No #267004
www.counter.li.org
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