[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice bits ...

Bruce Byfield wrote:

> Italo, you are quoted as saying, "After 20 years of feature oriented
> software, it is now the right time to bring back content at the centre
> of user focus."
>
> Can you explain exactly what that means?

Copying to the marketing@ and discuss@ mailing lists.

Actually, I wrote the entire press release, included my quote. I am not 
a developer (degree in humanities, life started as a geographer then 30 
years in hi-tech marketing, where I have ended just by chance at age 27 
discovering a deep curiosity for innovations), although I have managed a 
printer R&D lab for two years, between age 30 and 32, to develop an 
award winning dot matrix printer.

My personal opinion is that so far software has been focused more on 
features than on contents, and a good user is considered who is able to 
use features and not who is able to develop good contents. I have been 
one of these users and too many times I have been focusing on more on 
features that on contents. The future should be different.

Sometimes, having many features is just useless, if you do not need all 
the features. Of course, this does not mean that software should have 
less features.

The evolution of platforms - desktop, notebooks, laptops, netbooks, 
tablets, smartphones - will translate into a different relation between 
user and contents (editing and reading on a large screen is not like 
reading on a small screen, and definitely not like editing).

In addition, being mobile adds another layer of complexity, because the 
relathionship with contents is different when you are on the road: your 
attention is lower and your time pressure is higher.

Of course, I am speculating about the future. As a user I hate, though, 
reading that each new release adds x features when the previous one is 
still plagued by bugs and security issues.

I hope this explains, although partially, my quote. Best, Italo

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