On 3/15/10, Lars Nooden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-3-14 11:00 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > > > During the last ten years we've been very successful in being as similar > > to MS Office as possible. > > > That's very unfortunate that there are some camps that managed to get > inside the community that think that way. Or say that they think that > way. It has been a barrier to making a good product. > > Please, Bernhard, you know better than to troll the list on topics > unrelated to OOo. > > If you want to compare OOo to some products let's take a step back and > look at what's leading the market as far as being a good product. One > that stands out would be iWork, which apparently gets a lot of its > inspiration from the now defunct Lighthouse Design's presentation > graphics package Concurrence. > > However, that is more a UX discussion than a marketing discussion. > >
I agree, and also don't think that MS Office marketers are such a great force of nature. Basically because most of the success of Office respond to a different environment from a competitive one. I am not sure MSO marketing is a good model to follow. I rather look into the marketing of a more competitive industry like video game console, cars, or fast food or social networks, domain merchants. And yes this is talking about specifically branding and marketing. The risk however is that there is an area that really is not compliant with FLOSS. Between corporate culture, and just lawyery mentality about protection and regulations that the FLOSS just doesnt adjust. This goes along with my personal issue about the art license, which has a "call home clause" http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:Art/Logo/License > /Lars > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español "Support this 31st March - Document Freedom Day " http://www.documentfreedom.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
