+1 El vie, 09-09-2011 a las 07:21 +0100, Onyeibo Oku escribió: > I felt it only logical to make this discussion a new thread. It appears > interesting. I suspect it wont be the first time it is discussed and I > do hope the Devs take such comparative discussions seriously. > > That said, I'd like to start with a Quote from At0mic: > > Aye. It's just that working in the "real world" as opposed to ranting on a > > Linux forum showed me how far Linux and open-source has to go for even > > making a dent in the monopoly Microsoft has on the corporate desktop. It > > would be NICE of course if Libre/OpenOffice was used more, but it isn't, and > > there isn't as yet much imputus to change. > > > Change, as constant as it is doesn't come easy for the majority. Habits > are hard to break even when proven wrong. Microsoft is both a majority > and a habit and it takes the daring and strong to be free. Linux and > open-source is not a place for lazy people. Change starts when enough > people question status-quo. > > > When I released this, I decided it's better to stop being so fanatical about > > Linux and open-soruce and instead understand WHY people use things such as > > Outlook so much, and I discovered it's because Microsoft are damn good at > > finding out what their customers want. Implementation needs a little work > > sometimes, but they aren't stupid. > > That's a good one. Guess what people want? The want to get on with their > lives and really done care how the catalysts get created. So, it follows > that if they're already doing that with Option-A, they wont see reasons > to try Option-B even when Option-B may be more suitable for them. I > speak based on observations from my environs. People here use M$-Office > not because they know about exchange or cool features like automation. > They do so because they first knew M$-Office. > > 90% of these people cant understand serious formula syntaxes for Excel > or Calc. They are happy with Summations only or a few more basic stuff. > Guess what? I'm discussing business here not individuals. You and I > know that Calc will conveniently replace their pirated bloat-ware > (bloat-ware because they use less than half the features packed into it > ... and worse, its a hacked product). These are the people who need > Calc and open-source products the most. They cant afford bloat-ware but > for some weird reason they just want the label -- "Hey, I know/use > M$-Office too" -- Its crazy > > Like you said, Microsoft knows how to take advantage of their customer's > inclinations (its about the money eventually). These people are lazy so > 'ease' matters. Implementation may not be so good underneath but who > cares ... they don't even see it. So they 'dope' the less enlightened > majority with 'ease' while they tidy up on the hidden mess gradually. > It works because changing the majority's collective choice later will be > harder when the habit is formed. > > Here is another example: For instance, I have been porting a tool I > developed for 'easing' the pain of fellow lecturers in creating > grade/result sheets at our University. It was written for Excel 2003 in > VBA. It was relatively 'easier' to develop compared to my route in > LibreOffice (well that, because I chose a different language. BASIC > would have been much the same ... probably). My discovery is that > developing extensions for LibreOffice is W.O.R.K! > > What is the advantage? The developer is made more aware of the internal > workings of LibO. What is the loss? Time! The curve is much more and > someone who wants to get going is already gone. So the 'ease' concept > sells again for macro developers in M$ world but that doesn't make for > better/experienced 'black-belt' developers in the long run (... yeah, I > can hear you almost say 'who cares!'). > > Getting LibO into offices around here means presenting it first before > M$ products find their way into those machines. Then the users will > never try M$ again even with all the vanilla coatings they come with > --OR-- You induce the change by providing 'ease' in form of Extensions > in LibO and install libO with those for those businesses then carefully > silence M$ products. They wont even miss it. I do that here because > those M$ products are pirated anyway. It just makes them more honest > business men (lol!). I bet they wont consider M$ again when they're > told to PAY FOR THE REAL THING! > > > > > >
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