On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13-04-09, at 17:20 , Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >>> I came across this chart comparing LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office > >>> > >>> Do we have anything similar/more recent than the information I found > in: > >>> > >>> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/ > >>> > >>> or ??? > >>> > >>> We seem to have a variety of rather old documents pertaining to this > >> topic > >>> but I can't easily find a single page with a comparison chart. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> Any table on a vendor's website will be dismissed by most users since it > >> will be obviously self-serving and biased. A user might look at it, but > >> will they believe it? What we really want is a good comparison > published > >> by a 3rd party. That's why reviews are good. > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >> > > > >> An unbiased comparison would, of course, be ideal. I think the > comparison > >> chart approach is good so users can see fairly quickly what the feature > >> comparison is. > >> > > > > If we think we shouldn't create one, perhaps be on the lookout for such a > > chart. > > What's wrong with being "self-serving and biased" when we a) have good > reason for being that way, i.e., empirically grounded and logically backed > argument (so, in fact, it's not really biased at all, and if it is > perceived as such, then it is still in our interest to make public why we > believe what we believe and do what we do), and b) as Kay points out, > taking the high road doesn't mean that others won't take the low. > > I'm not making a moral judgement. I'm a blogger after all, so self-serving and biased is something I'm intimately familiar with ;-) I'm just saying that users who care enough to want a comparison chart would probably be savvy enough to know that one that we provided, no matter how well intentioned, is not to be trusted. Look at the LibreOffice one for an example of the kinds of games that can be played. They list the minutia of features that no users actually care about, when that is a checkmark in their column, while ignoring the huge features that MS Office has that they lack. That kind of comparison doesn't really serve the user well, and I think we, as a non-profit, should avoid that kind of spin. Of course, if you have in mind a different kind of comparison, one more grounded in reality, then I'm all ears. Regards, -Rob > louis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
