Hello Tom... Are you a developer? Why using so much analogies? Could you provide strong facts instead? Please, this is boring and time wasting. It seems like you only want to be polemical and grow the controversy, but I hope to be wrong about it. If you say about stable and pre-release versions, that's a common software releasing way and I don't see your point here. If you want to discuss the philosophy behind the LO development model and how to improve it, I think that's a better task for developers.
I agree about better file format support (I still think a code sharing alliance with other projects must be done to make things easier), code efficiency optimization, constantly improving the code quality, more robust code and more open about expanding the project to other needs. What would "corporate" want? Well, certain corporations like IBM seem to want to take the full control of the project in a proxy way (and form a corporately controlled community over it, just like Sun tried with OpenSolaris and OpenOffice too). Apache is quite passive in that regard and they adopt corporate owned technologies like Java, in my opinion (and they become some kind of low cost subcontracted organization to manage the development). But other corporations "just" want an a lot lower cost software that meets all their needs (just as the Linux kernel is for tons of them) and that's the interesting ones to join forces with. Look at Linux Foundation, they managed the equilibrium and still the kernel is one of the most used pieces of code as basis for tons of devices from embedded to clusters. Even Linus these days is becoming grumpy about the years of damaging Nvidia attitude (no hardware programming documentation, tons of binary blobs and not just related to their graphics chips...), despite his non-correct political attitude quite common from the rebel way of the hacker philosophy. About friendly corporations, I think this must be formalized in a dynamical and pragmatic way but also with a good set of lawyers. They must be formal members of the community in a similar way that Linux Foundation does with corps :) Regards. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > The way i see it is that LO always has 2 products. > > Lets take LO's equivalent of fine red wine in a market where everyone else is > restricted to only being able to produce beer. LOs strategy is to claim that > it's red wine is "low alcohol" (because wine is about 12% whereas whiskey is > far higher). Meanwhile LO is also offering freshly squeezed fruit juice but > it never mentions about that until you dig around the back of the shop. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Mon, 18/6/12, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Cor Nouws <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Latest newsletter from SourceForge re: > AOO > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 18 June, 2012, 11:21 > > Hi, > > My customers hate (some) bugs as much as I and we all do. Still, they don't > dump computers :-) > > My customers want better compatibility with .docx, xlsx, and pptx. > They want a faster Calc, a Base that works, import of Visio, and so on. > They want a office suite that is preparing itself for the future and faster > solving of bugs. > Guess what they want .. > > It seems as if Tom doesn't know well enough what he is talking about. > Which if course is a pity when he is taking such strong positions on the > marketing list. > > Tom Davies wrote (18-06-12 11:59) >> [...] > > > > -- - Cor > - http://nl.libreoffice.org > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
