Hi :) I don't know what words marketing departments for other products use.
It's just interesting to see SoftMaker being careful to avoid potential problems. They imply they handle DocX better than even MSO can but then add in a disclaimer. MSO 2010 doesn't always render DocX created by MSO 2007 perfectly or precisely. That's assuming the same machine and the same OS. So, although their front page makes it sound great i would want to see the results from thousands or millions of different peopl using it before really judging it's strengths and weaknesses. I suspect that LO is better but that could be personal bias. Simon's answer was the clincher for me "It does not appear to be open source, so it does not offer its users either a guarantee of continuity or any of the other benefits that arise from software freedom." So, in my opinion lets just see where they are in a year or so. Being proprietary may give them a niche market that LO couldn't tap into. Imo anything that helps pull people away from MSO is good. Having seen there are viable alternatives my guess is that people would then gravitate towards LO. Just my 2cents Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 20/8/12, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jay Lozier <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 20 August, 2012, 14:41 On 08/20/2012 09:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Interesting choice of words to describe how accurately it read/writes DocX. > Instead of saying "accurately" or "precisely" they carefully choose to use > the word "faithfully". A slightly more "woolly" word that lets them get away > with errors that are likely to appear. > Regards from > Tom :) What terminology do others, such as Google Docs, use? I suspect they are using this terminology to avoid lawsuits from people who do not realize msox formats are proprietary when as you note the inevitable gibberish occurs. > > > --- On Mon, 20/8/12, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Simon Phipps <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SoftMaker Office > To: "Florian Monfort" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 20 August, 2012, 12:15 > > > On 20 Aug 2012, at 10:37, Florian Monfort wrote: > >> Is it any good compared to LibreOffice ? >> >> Wanted to have your opinion ! >> >> http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm > It does not appear to be open source, so it does not offer its users either a > guarantee of continuity or any of the other benefits that arise from software > freedom. > > S. > > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- 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
