well said.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: Hi :) > It's interesting that there has been almost no posts about articles such > as this one. > > > https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success > > There are some interesting stats that are very well presented in there and > it's worth using to spread the word of how LibreOffice works. > > > For me one of the key things that no article seems to mention is that > while many hefty companies are vanishing seemingly overnight it seems > somewhat dangerous to rely on just one. It would be like not making > back-ups of critical information!! If we can bear to think of LO and AOO > as being similar enough that users can migrate from one to the other fairly > easily and thus as being 2 prioducts supported by 1 community then that > community is massive. Taken as being 1 product it is so robust that even > if 1 or 2 companoes the size of IBM or Google (or RedHat or SUSE) were to > simply vanish overnight then there would still be a good product out > there. By sticking with MS people are risking everything they have by > being so heavily dependant on just 1 company and that company is losing > market share to mobile devices. Perhaps Win8 might help them recover the > OS battle but it might not. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > From: "frido...@kathan.co.nz" <frido...@kathan.co.nz> > >To: market...@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Sunday, 4 November 2012, 8:07 > >Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice > > > >A positive & informative article about LibreOffice. > > > > > https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/660608-libreoffice-a-continuing-tale-of-foss-success > > > >Greetings from Tauranga > > > >Fridolin > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted