Le 01/12/2013 14:35, Rob Weir a écrit :
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote:
Unfortunately, the ordinary computer user has no idea of the base of underlying
code or of its source. He is only aware of the title of the package he uses,
and this dominates perception.
True. But what are the facts? Our download numbers show that there
are relatively few Linux downloads. We have more AOO Windows users in
Poland than Linux users worldwide.
But I guess that the download numbers don't take into account the repositories
from the GNU/Linux distros.
So what you record is only those who want to switch from the distro delivered
solution to AOO.
As far as brand perceptions go, the data I have shows that the
OpenOffice brand is increasing, and is far stronger than the
LibreOffice brand [1]. In fact, some LibreOffice supporters interpret
these numbers as indicating that many LibreOffice users mistakenly
think that they are still using OpenOffice and refer to it as
"OpenOffice". That just goes to show that we have some brand
perception paranoia on both sides!
Finally, the take away from the brand perception survey is that most
people have heard of neither OpenOffice nor LibreOffice. That is
where the greatest gains will gone from, increasing mainstream
awareness of OpenOffice.
The problem is that even among the users who know about OO, LibO is gaining
more and more visibility. If all articles deal with LibO and the proclaimed
death of AOO, users who are considering moving away from MSFT will not even try
to check about AOO.
FUD is becoming dangerous, especially with the kind of journalism we are
seeing. Even if in the community we know it's FUD, we can't accept it anymore.
Hagar
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