Dave Post wrote: > On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:27 AM, H.S. wrote: > >> In any case, the poster on Slashdot compared OOo with Firefox. Both are >> free and open source. Yet Firefox grew by leaps and bounds but OOo has >> never shown similar rise in popularity. > > That comparison seems apples vs. oranges to me. >
Yes, one might see it that way. But I think the poster was trying to make a point about free software and the features and quality it offers. FF and OOo are both free. But compared to their "dominant competitors", FF offered much more features that were in demand and at a much better quality. Result: FF is eating away at IE's market share at a high pace. OOo on the other hand seems to suffer from limited set of features the most. I think it is a high quality product however. To be fair though, OOo has most of the features necessary for non-complex document preparations (as opposed to preparing technical manuscripts). Actually, considering these three arguments, I think Ubuntu has also progressed tremendously. It is open source and free, has features which were in demand for ages in Linux world (GUI friendly OS) and is a high quality product. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
