Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice

       well said.



On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@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: "fridolin@kathan.co.nz" <fridolin@kathan.co.nz>
> > To: marketing@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

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