I agree to a point. (IMHO) In the US... The computer is Microsoft and Word is what Americans use.
I am only talking about the US market. I asked the IT department of the #3 dialysis provider in the U.S. (DCI Inc. a 501(c)3 nonprofit company. I work at this company BTW. I asked why DCI does not use OOo or LibO and I used the "it's free". The answer is DCI has a grant or some other such free deal to use MS Office from Microsoft Corp. How can we compete with free MS Office? The answer IMO. Create a product that is remarkable Dave Johnson, USNFR [email protected] 6195496830 http://www.davefilms.us http://www.libreofficedvd.info (619) 335-5314 (619) 335-5314Dave Johnson DUNS number: 826989779 "Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/"; On Jan 1, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 01/01/2011 09:29 AM, Stefan Weigel wrote: > >> What concrete benefit do we have from a big market share. What are >> the disadvantages of less market share? > >> From http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto I >> do not read any reason for competition or fighting for market share. > > We are going to promote a concept (software freedom), a project (TDF) and a > program (LibreOffice), and if we succeed we are going to grow the market > share. > > A larget market share brings in more users, more press, more supporters and > ultimately more money to grow the project. So market share is very important, > although we are not going to aim at market share. > > In Italy, we have grown from 3% to over 20% of the office suite market > without thinking at market share, but now that the market share is over 20% > we have got ink on large dailies with articles bigger that the ones covering > MS Office. And this is growing the market share even further. > > Market share is a consequence and not an abjective. > > -- > Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation > E-mail: [email protected] > Mobile +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 > Skype: italovignoli - GTalk: [email protected] > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
