Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread Clocked Modular
Hi All, I've worked in multinationals and for governments in Europe and the US. I know how email dependent they are. But I've also worked with Taiwan and Korean business. And 20 years ago already they were moving to mobile. Also, outside the old stile corporate and gov bubbles, most communication

Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread Cor Nouws
James Harking wrote on 28/12/2021 09:12: > Also mail clients often have a calendar and contacts function that are > integrated. That is why I really think this is a short coming of > LibreOffice currently. One could also look from the other position: LibreOffice technology allows to integrate

Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread James Harking
Hi all, I completely disagree that e-mail is a fading technology that will soon be replaced. It is the only universal communication method realistically for business outside of telephone calls. We after all are now using e-mail to communicate on this mailing list. I work in a large

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread Nigel Verity
When I hear about these custom distributions developed by governments I sense that the source code never finds its way into the public domain. Consequently they are more likely to be examples of the exploitation of open source rather than the adoption of open source principles. Given its track

Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread James Harking
Hi again, Your key identifier with iOS and Android is your email address. You mention corporate and political world in the USA and EU, that's a very sizable market indeed. If you want migrations from Microsoft Office you need alternative applications, you can't just have a void and say we no

Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-28 Thread James Harking
Hi Cor, There in is the problem, too much choice is not helpful. It's easier to say we give an institution a choice in the software they want to integrate rather than provide a recommendation based on applications that works well together to provide a more robust solution. Migrations are clearly