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

Hi :)
I think my favourite answer so far has been Alex's.  I liked all those
stats kinda suggesting that one reason for excluding MS Office from
the poll is just that it's sooo unpopular in Linux.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 8 February 2015 at 18:09, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek@kde.org> 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)
>
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