On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 13:19 -0500, Chuck wrote: > How about posting this on alt.destroy.microsoft? I fail to see the > relevance of Microsoft bashing on an email list that has nothing to do > with Microsoft. For the record this is the "Open Office General" email > list. Discussions not directly related to OOo should be taken elsewhere.
Microsoft Office is the main competitor to OOo. Arguably this information might be better on the marketing list but weakening the opposition is pretty standard stuff in marketing any product. Information about how to do that is relevant if the aim is to proliferate OOo. If it isn't, why bother with a marketing project? In general IT adoption is largely dependent on confidence, not the quality of the technology. Boosting confidence in our product and under-mining confidence in competing products is just standard stuff. Ok some people might get a little over-zealous but then again some people also delude themselves that they can be both pro MSO and Pro OOo. I'd like to see a MS employee go to Steve Ballmer and say "Hey Steve, we ought to be objective about OOo and not say anything that might be a bit biased, its really rather cool and does things our product can't. Give them a break and let's not expose any of their shortcomings, after all you got to hand it to those guys they really are doing a good job" Its bad enough having a 360 million dollar budget working against us without our own people not having the first clue about market realities. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
