Hi :) You are not alone in that opinion but i can see it from other angles too.
1. The way i see it is that LO and AOO are produced by 1 large community. There are quite a few people who work in both or move from 1 to the other and sometimes back again. The mainstream press seems to think we fight and argue constantly and that seems to have boosted coverage for both projects. AOO aims at a slightly different niche from LO although both have a lot of ground in common. It's NOT a case of us against them. It's both of us and others (Caligra/KOffice, Google-docs, AbiWord&Gnumeric etc) acting in "co-operative competition" with/against each other against a dominant market-leader. 2. I copy&pasted one page from OOo's documentation into our own wiki and the original author proof-read it for us. He was more than happy to share the knowledge and help distribute it widely. Since then others have made a better page and Hagar has updated his one in AOO so 'mine' has fallen quite far behind and rarely gets visited now. I'll set it as a redirect to the updated one someday. 3. I agree that business people are probably unfamiliar with the concept of co-operative competition and that it might even scare them off from using either of LO and AOO!! Corporate-types are often timid when in unfamiliar terrain so it's better for us to appear to be easy for them to understand (imo) Regards from Tom :) On 3 February 2014 16:47, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2014 08:48 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: >> >> Il 03/02/2014 13:21, IOmazic ha scritto: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to >>> install >>> it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all >>> modification needed. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Ivan Omazic >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Ivan Omazic >>> IT Assistant / Technical Lead >>> ioma...@wmo.int >>> +41 22 730 81 55 >>> +41 79 918 34 26 >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-deployment-tp4077035p4095225.html >>> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >> >> This might prove a useful starting point: >> >> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=28765&start=0 >> > > Why are people still sending others to the OpenOffice.org web site for > information about LibreOffice? > > For this posted need, I remember hearing about "deployment" of LO on a LO > web page. Although LO was a fork of OOo from several years ago, it is > "grown" past those roots now. If we do not have the needed documentation > now, we should really make it a priority to set up a web site/page to talk > about IT management deployment of LO, including network based. > > The current AOO/OOo web site should not be the place where people go to get > information about LO. From a marketing aspect, this could lead business > users to think we are not the package to use, but AOO is. That is wrong way > of doing "business". > > SO, just from the marketing aspect to businesses, this needs to be resolved. > From the typical user, this could be an issue as well. > > I stopped using OOo when LO came out. I do not want to have to explain to > users that LO's documentation site[s] is not the place to find the needed > information to migrate/deploy LO to their systems. > > Would you tell the UK tech advisors to not consider LO for the open source > option to using the mandated ODF file format requirements, but to go with > AOO/OOo since we do not have the needed documentation? We would be saying > this if we tell them to go to the OOo web site for the deployment > information. > > I see too many of these postings telling users to go to the OOo site[s] for > the needed information or extension/template download. Yes, there may be > something there that LO currently does not have, but it should not be the > first option. LO needs to rely on LO's sites to give the user the help and > support they need. > > I do not use Nabble, but I would think that there must be a forum there > about business migration and deployment. IF not, then there should be. > > Am I alone in this opinion? > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
