On 13-04-09, at 19:57 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> ] >> 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
… thinking further on this, I suppose one thing I'd rather (or like to) have is not a feature (or bug) comparison but rather a chart that can show how and where community can intervene on their own behalf. My reading of AOO is that seldom do enterprise users (ore even individuals) look to such comparisons in shopping around. A user, like an accountant or artist or novelist or student, or etc., might look to see if the suite has a particular feature and buy it for that reason (or download it for free). But probably the majority don't do that. Enterprise purchases are made using different criteria. But what is really a differentiator, I'd like to believe, is the fact that because AOO is open source and has a welcoming community plus an active developer base, users can shape the suite to suit their ends. louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
