I think one of the premier office suites is LO.. its basically amenable to anyone´s need provided that persons trying to use it develop sufficient understanding to use it, which is usually not the case.
What makes LO precious is that no one can buy it to park it. Should Linux Questions reach to the monopoly assistance provided by governments and others to foul LO as a major competitor..denying user access by outlawing a better free product from a costly less product...? Laws and policies which designate allowed product are monopolist.. Seems to me Linux Users might award a wrongful Monopoly of the y;ear award and market the reasons for the award globally. -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 1/8/17, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards - "Office Suite of the Year" - vote To: "Marc Paré" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 6:36 PM Hi :) I think it might be more meaningful if they included MS Office and other proprietary options including Android and iPad options such as "Author". Many people claim that there are no alternatives to MS Office and that "even if there were" they would still have to use it. Many others claim to have tried all the alternatives but that nothing is as good as MS Office. It is good to have a place that consistently rubbishes such idiots. Those sort of people claim that because there is no alternative to MS Office they couldn't possible move away from Windows. So i really think this is a crucial category for LinuxQuestions.com. Regards from Tom :) On 8 January 2017 at 09:43, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The site LinuxQuestions.org is again offering users the chance to vote on > their "Members Choice Awards" categories. They are debating this year as to > whether do away with the "Office Suite of the Year" award, as LibreOffice > usually wins by such a wide margin. > > Feel free to add your voice and spread the word about the vote! You may > find the voting site here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/ > questions/2016-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-123/ > office-suite-of-the-year-4175596296/ > > On the topic over whether they should close this particular category, IMO, > if there were no other office suite choices other than LibreOffice, then > closing the category would make sense. However, there are plenty of choices > in the Linux office suite arena and it is always nice to see how people in > general feel of their most favourite office suite. Yes, the margins are > quite wide between LibreOffice and the next second office suite choice, > however, it is always nice to see who is in second, third, fourth place > standing. It is also always nice to see that the work put into LibreOffice > is validated by an outpouring of its users. > > I would then suggest that we should not only place our vote for > LibreOffice, but make sure to comment on the page, that the "Office Suite > of the Year Award" not be closed. The category not only validates the > TDF/LibreOffice achievement, but also serves to validate and recognize > other open source/for-profit projects in the office suite category, > regardless of the standing. I cannot imagine how the awards scene would > look like if all other award organizations decided to do the same and close > down categories for the same reason. > > Hope you can take time to vote for your favourite office suite and feel > free to browse the other categories on the site. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > -- > Marc Paré > [email protected] > http://www.parEntreprise.com > parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) > parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > ubscribe/ > 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 > -- 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
