Jay, Le 25/05/2014 04:52, Jay Philips a écrit : > > I think the marketing team should come up with a strategy improve > libreoffice's popularity on download sites like download.com and > filehippo.com, as many users discover new software from sites like this. > I've seen some software makers direct downloads of their software to > such sites to increase its popularity. >
The problem I see with such thirdparty websites (at least here in France) is that they often repackage the software they offer for download. The repackaging unfortunately adds some unwanted "goodies", such as IE toolbars or Firefox addons. If the user starts the install in automatic mode (almost all do), these things are silently installed and suddenly the user PC becomes cluttered with what I consider virus-like items. As a hotline employee, I very often get questions about the PCs being suddenly veeeeery slow or some unwanted websites opening when starting IE. So, unless these sites change their way of "promoting" software, I wouldn't go this route at all. YMMV -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- To unsubscribe 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
