Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice in MacWorld Australia

On 10/11/2012 06:48 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 11.10.2012 20:46, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > It is nice to see that MacWorld Australia states that LibreOffice is a
> > "must have" app/package. I wonder if the MacWorld for the USA and Europe
> > would have the same statement.
> >
> > Be nice to have LO listed in the "must have" category in the various
> > Windows magazines. We could use more Windows users, and free
> > advertisements towards Windows users, as we can get.
> >
> > It would be nice to have a booth in a Windows version of the big
> > software shows that happen for Linux and Mac. But those booths may be
> > very expensive to "rent" for such an event.
>
> Windows users can run MS Office easily and for little money (if any). 
> Why should they use LibreOffice if all they want is cheap MS Office? 
> Idealism? Masochism?
I do not know about you, but LO is free and MSO is not.  Then there is 
the bloatedness of MSO that was giving me problems with MSO2003, now it 
is even worse, as I have been told.  LO is a good FREE alternative to 
buying MSO.  I know a lot of people that cannot afford to spend good 
money on software they use for other things.

I know of many people who choose MSO and the fee, since they did not 
know there was any package that they could use instead of MSO.  If given 
a choice, they now would have never paid the MSO fee and just installed 
LO instead.

We need to get the word out to Windows users about how good LO is. Then 
there are those people who have to deal with several computers in their 
household or small business.  How about the free community computer 
centers?  How many of those places can afford 5, 10, 15, etc., licenses 
of MSO when the money is not there, or is needed to keep the computers 
repaired.

Then there are all of the free language spell checking dictionaries and 
free language packs.  How much would it cost a person to have a version 
of MSO that is uses English, Spanish - Puerto Rico version, French, and 
Hebrew, menus and spelling dictionaries?  I once talked to a lady from 
Israel that needed to deal with English, French, and Hebrew, for her 
tourism center she worked for.  She was amazed that one package could do 
what she could not get MSO to do for her.

How many of LO's user could use the price to buy a full version of 
MSO-2010 for something else?  I do not know where you will find a legal 
copy of MSO for no cost, so your "if any" comment is not valid.  The 
last price I found for a version of MSO I would use was going to cost me 
more that it cost me for my new 23 inch monitor I needed, or the cost of 
the internal 2-TB drive I needed to replace a dead drive.

As a person with a fixed income, I cannot afford to pay MS for their 
office package when I can get LO for free.  I know a lot of people that 
feel the same way.

LO is not "a cheap MSO".  It is a free alternative to MSO and is a FOSS 
package.  There are a lot of European governments, and other governments 
in the world that are no using a FOSS office package instead of MSO.  
Our USA federal governmental leaders are now looking at FOSS as a 
solution to their software needs.  A mandate for "The White House" is 
for looking into FOSS for their software needs before looking at buying 
something.  The need to reduce the budget is just one reason to look at 
packages like LO.

SO, it is not "Idealism" or "Masochism" in looking towards LO for the 
office package in a Windows environment.  Of course, there are those who 
rather see MS do everything their way and make sure people pay them for 
all their computer needs.  I do not want to give MS more control of my 
life and my computers as they are doing their best to force people to 
do, if they want to use a computer.

I an a Linux person.  I still have a couple of Windows systems, but 
rarely use them.  On those Windows systems, other than the OS, I rarely 
use any products that came from MS.  I prefer FOSS.  I prefer to go 
legally free software over paying for some package that I can find/use a 
good, or better, free one that does the same/similar job.

MS is even trying to claim that they own the rights to a huge chunk of 
the Linux core code to get people to pay them to use distros like 
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, even Red Hat, to avoid the "threat" of MS taking 
that business to court and doing everything to drag out the case till 
the small company [and larger ones as well] folds due to running out of 
money to pay the court costs in the fight for what is right.  a few 
million in court costs is pocket change to MS, but not the small/medium 
business owners.  Now who would be eager to give MS more of their money, 
with that type of business model/attitude towards people they want as 
customers?  Give us money we legally have no right to, or we will take 
you to court and ruin your business with the legal fees and court costs 
defending your legal rights.



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