Dear Jonathan and Drew, On 4/17/19 5:28 PM, jonathon wrote:> On 4/16/19 9:42 AM, Nigel Verity wrote: > Possibly outside the scope of LibO: > * The why of FLOSS; > * The virtue of open standards;
"the why of FLOSS" and "The virtue of open standards" is surely better explained in https://u.fsf.org/user-liberation/ and https://publiccode.eu but a promo video for LO should be based on a convincing explanation why LO is a "best practice" of using FLOSS, because: On 4/17/19 1:53 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > For what it is worth: > > I would like to see some marketing material which does not even mention > FOSS. FLOSS is the only unique feature of LO in comparison of MS Office. All other ideas both of you mentioned tend to point on *functional* attributes of LO. An argumentation for LO that only use a functional perspective will drop its "strongest weapon" in debates whether to go for LO or MS Office, because MSO which will always be stronger in functional perspective (more money, more developers, more market power). I've experienced this in the last debate with decision makers of my university: "Yes, LO is nice but it won't beat MS Office because in MSO we will have artificial intelligence". The question is not if this is true or not - the question is, if the "battlefield of functionality" is the one LO will be able to beat Microsoft, Adobe etc. and its cloud universes. The real power of LO comes from being digital freedom instead of being a "digital north korea" like Adobe and Microsoft - and this should be the base of any argumentation because it is the only superior starting position LO has. Starting from software freedom any further argumentation will convice (at least in societies claiming freedom as fundamental part of a society): -because LO is freedom respecting it is secure -because LO is freedom respecting it is privacy rescpecting -because LO is freedom respecting it serves the user -because LO is freedom respecting it is sustainable In this way LO will convince governments, companies, the educational sector and NGOs, not by trying to convince users in a perspective that is already totally lost to the proprietary sector ("functionality" aka "but MS Office is so easy to use"). Best regards Roland -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
