Re: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-05 Thread Nik
Hi Tom, all, Sorry to prolong this, but I *HATE* being misrepresented; Tom Davies wrote: Ok, if software freedom is going to be the only selling point we use then England, American and Australia are going to reject the product. However it might make most of Europe more accessible to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-02 Thread Tom Davies
In my country this is what people think of when they hear the word free. Anyone that hears the words free software will find that indistinguishable from freeware which is much more widely known but only as something that has caused a lot of problems. I am beginning to accept that maybe my

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-02 Thread drew
Ubuntu has also grown in a similar time-frame to the point that in almost any newsagents you will see at least 1 magazine mentioning it or even carrying a full article about it. Where are the articles about OpenOffice? Well, IMO, the OpenOffice.org articles where the Linux articles.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-02 Thread Italo Vignoli
Sorry, I am not used to be hard in mailing lists, but I would like to stop this thread as it is quite useless, for the reasons I have already tried to express in a more polite way in other messages and I will reiterate - for the last time - in this answer. On 1/2/11 3:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-02 Thread Tom Davies
From: Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 2 January, 2011 15:28:15 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points Sorry, I am not used to be hard in mailing lists, but I would like to stop

[libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) Happy New Year everyone! :) Free means has no value, is worthless, cheaper than cheap and nasty, so bad it can't be sold, not worth having, about the same value as garbage. Lets NOT use this as a marketing ploy! Libre is a difficult concept especially in countries like mine that has