Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

On 6 February 2015 at 12:25, Paul <paulsteyn1@afrihost.co.za> wrote:
> Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not
> comparable to a native binary?

Yes, interesting, given that LO contains non-native components - those that
require Java VM. LO Base with HSQL even requites it.

So yes, for me there are technical parallels between MSO with
the 'emulated' runtime and LO.

History similarities are present too, both products come from large
corporations and one tried to emulate the other to address the price
issue above any other factors (from the history of StarOffice under
Sun). Both suites were completely or partially acquired from smaller
vendors (IIRC, entire OO but Base from StarDivision, PowerPoint,
Visio, Outlook Mobile, FrontPage from other companies).

So it's good to be aware of the roots.

LO started clean at some point; let's look into the future and focus
on positives.

As for the original concern -- congratulations for the 1st place but
in the current context... I don't care too much about the poll as it's
not close to something scientifically correct. Obviously Linux users
is a small population of LO users (my claim as a long time employe of
an OpenOffice vendor), too small to extrapolate the results and then
construct any hypothesis.

Yes I know this is LinuxQuestions. For the record neither I even voted
there nor any contributor of Calligra known to me told me she/he voted
this year, we have never even spread the word within the community to
vote there. I remember LQ from maybe 2006. It seems that LQ staff do
not contact the teams about their plans for subsequent polls. We can
construct other of similar scale on G+ for example. Too often people
tend to read these overly generic polls as "Cheapest Office Suite".

-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
Calligra Suite:
: A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
Kexi:
: A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek

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