On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:13, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Thanks to everyone who has expressed a balanced, objective opinion about > this. > > I don't want to spend a lot time here arguing about ads. I understand that > it's a sensitive subject, I'm sorry that some people disagree, and I > respect their opinions. But I would like to mention that I don't really > have any control over the ad content, that is determined by Google. That > being said, It seems rather strange to refer to Microsoft Office as > "competition" and to show such a level of contempt toward it. I personally > do not own, use, or even like Microsoft Office. But it isn't a taboo, > shady, spammy, startup job. Like it or not, it's the industry standard > still, and will continue to be so for a long time. Irrational hatred and > attempts to obliterate all references to Microsoft or any other commercial > project are counterproductive and don't seem to agree with the free spirit > around LibreOffice. I have made a conscientious, informed, intelligent > decision to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and no amount of > forum ads will sway me. I would hope and expect that most other users of > the forum will likewise have the presence of mind to make a rational > decision based on their own needs. > > That's all for now. Thanks for reading! > Sam from LibreOfficeForum.org
Well, there is a Competitive Ad Filter<http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21593>for Google Ads, so that's not an excuse. It sould be just silly if there was no possibility to filter competitors. And just to clarify, MS Office is still the defacto standard, and The Document Foundation Community and LibreOffice community want to change that. Do you really think you help the cause by advertising MS Office? Your moral arguments are just not realistic, we all live in the real world, and competition exists!! Cheers! Jaime -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
