Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

Augustine Souza wrote:
> On 6/15/11, Allen Pulsifer <pulsifer@openoffice.org> wrote:
> ...
>   
> > End users do not care about
> > who's right, who's wrong, who's been slighted, who is more pure, etc.  They
> > just care about products and technologies that are going to meet their
> > needs.
> >     
>
> Painting quite a poor picture of end users? Are they really like that?
> Or do we say so to support our argument?
>   
As one of those end users I would have to say that that is probably 
about right.  Unless something interferes with the quality or 
availability of the software or the support available for it, we are 
probably not going to care.  Now the situation with OOo and Sun, and 
later Oracle was that comments, complaints and requests by end users 
seemed to basically be ignored, that does bother end users!  This 
situation is notably better with TDF running things. 


I could be wrong about this, but I don't think I am, OOo being primarily 
the responsibility of a large for profit corporation it was treated like 
a proprietary software package as far as development and support was 
concerned.  Comparing Microsoft Internet Explorer with Mozilla Firefox 
shows that an independent not-for-profit foundation can actually produce 
a better software "Product" than a huge for-profit corporation.  So I am 
confidently hoping that LO under TDF will actually fare better than OO 
under Sun and Oracle. 

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