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

On 02/08/2015 01:09 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 7 February 2015 at 13:22, Jean-Baptiste Faure
> <jbfaure@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> > Le 06/02/2015 22:02, Urmas a écrit :
> > > "Italo Vignoli":
> > >
> > > You need to understand that there are only two kinds of soft- and
> > > hardware: that which solves the client problem at adequate cost, and
> > > that which doesn't. Anything else is irrelevant.
> > You're right. But the issue is how you calculate the costs. For me
> > proprietary licenses are unacceptable high costs for office suites. In
> > other words, proprietary licenses create problems and do not solve none
> > of my problems.
> The FOSS isn't to lower your cost. Freeware and SaaS/Freemium *are*,
> among others.
>
> If FOSS lowers your cost, +1 for FOSS and all, but it's by the way.
> Long term it does because absence of issues (vendor lock-in for
> example) it addresses as a consequence of its freedoms indeed lowers
> the cost. But it's hard to claim that attracting by lowering the cost
> was the original plan.
>
> (you're right if by cost you mean something else than the raw money)
While we tend to focus on financial costs with FOSS vs proprietary that 
probably is not as big an issue for many. The real problem with 
proprietary packages is they often use proprietary file formats. If you 
realize that proprietary formats impede file sharing between users 
because each must have a reliable way of reading the format. This leaves 
at the mercy of the owner of the format; will they support it in the 
future or even will they be in business in the future. If one remember 
the 80's and early 90's every word processing program used its own 
format. While file sharing was not a prime concern, many of the programs 
were produced by companies that are out of business.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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