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how is it Apache's responsibility? how about an open letter to the LibreOffice team to do what every single commercial company does, go out there and sell itsel

by oneJob 11y ago

how is it Apache's responsibility? how about an open letter to the LibreOffice team to do what every single commercial company does, go out there and sell itself. OSS work is often noted and praised for having evolutionary and organic growth characteristics, as opposed to the coordinated and centralized growth exhibited by MS Office. without exhausting that vein of thought, this open letter seems to want to have it both ways.

scholia 11y ago
If you had a straight battle for name recognition between LibreOffice and Apache Open Office, which would win? AOO is just benefiting from years of hype behind OO.org, which would be fine if it had community support and was making the same sort of improvements to the code.... LO forked before AOO existed, so you could argue that https://www.openoffice.org/ https://www.openoffice.org/ should offer to link to both versions. (I'm not wholly convinced by this myself, but it would level the playing field, and more people might download the better version.)
- oneJob 11y ago
  and,,, you seem to have completely have missed the point. if OSS is organic and evolutionary, we shouldn't be discussing market-share strategies. LO, keep on doin'. AOO, you keep on doin' too. i wouldn't argue anything particular here, just would like to point out that the sentiment of the open-letter is one of coordinated community action, which emphasis on the coordinated. if i wanted coordination, i'd join an organization, like, maybe, a company, like, maybe, microsoft. naw, i'll just keep on doin'.
  - scholia 11y ago
    Not really. The whole point of Schaller's Open Letter is that he thinks people are being led to use an inferior version of open source code. In fact, he says: “Letting users believe that OpenOffice is still alive and evolving is only damaging the general reputation of open source Office software among non-technical users.” This really doesn't have anything to do with market share per se. He just thinks that marketing an inferior product with almost no community support is bad for users and bad for open source.
nice__two 11y ago
The Document Foundation is not a company! It's a foundation!

by oneJob 11y ago

scholia 11y ago

If you had a straight battle for name recognition between LibreOffice and Apache Open Office, which would win? AOO is just benefiting from years of hype behind OO.org, which would be fine if it had community support and was making the same sort of improvements to the code.... LO forked before AOO existed, so you could argue that https://www.openoffice.org/ https://www.openoffice.org/ should offer to link to both versions. (I'm not wholly convinced by this myself, but it would level the playing field, and more people might download the better version.)

oneJob 11y ago
and,,, you seem to have completely have missed the point. if OSS is organic and evolutionary, we shouldn't be discussing market-share strategies. LO, keep on doin'. AOO, you keep on doin' too. i wouldn't argue anything particular here, just would like to point out that the sentiment of the open-letter is one of coordinated community action, which emphasis on the coordinated. if i wanted coordination, i'd join an organization, like, maybe, a company, like, maybe, microsoft. naw, i'll just keep on doin'.
- scholia 11y ago
  Not really. The whole point of Schaller's Open Letter is that he thinks people are being led to use an inferior version of open source code. In fact, he says: “Letting users believe that OpenOffice is still alive and evolving is only damaging the general reputation of open source Office software among non-technical users.” This really doesn't have anything to do with market share per se. He just thinks that marketing an inferior product with almost no community support is bad for users and bad for open source.

nice__two 11y ago

The Document Foundation is not a company! It's a foundation!