Death of OpenOffice.org will damage LibreOffice, too. Only geeks around me know (and care) about the split, whereas most other users I know just use "open Office" because it's free and don't want to be educated about the situation (they simply don't care). News about OpenOffice.org dying will probably result in them considering the "open Office" idea a failure and switching to MS Office, not LibreOffice, since LibreOffice is a scary and not widely known name.
You already see that headlines like these make news, and you will see that overall population of Libre/OpenOffice will dwindle if brand is considered "dead".
too true, i expect. i overhear students at my college complaining about OpenOffice "not doing what 'Real Office' does" and that it's "impossible to make it do stuff". i choose to stay out of their assertions. i'd mod you up, but i haven't had mod points in quite a while.
in good news, hasn't some progressive European gov't recently gone LibreOffice?
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I wouldn't want that. Sorry.
Death of OpenOffice.org will damage LibreOffice, too. Only geeks around me know (and care) about the split, whereas most other users I know just use "open Office" because it's free and don't want to be educated about the situation (they simply don't care). News about OpenOffice.org dying will probably result in them considering the "open Office" idea a failure and switching to MS Office, not LibreOffice, since LibreOffice is a scary and not widely known name. You already see that headlines like these make news, and you will see that overall population of Libre/OpenOffice will dwindle if brand is considered "dead".
too true, i expect. i overhear students at my college complaining about OpenOffice "not doing what 'Real Office' does" and that it's "impossible to make it do stuff". i choose to stay out of their assertions. i'd mod you up, but i haven't had mod points in quite a while. in good news, hasn't some progressive European gov't recently gone LibreOffice?
Just keep it away from my Irn Bru
that's funny, but i can't mark it up.
My wife is a 47 year old university professor and I think she is hot.
Me too.
I sell mine on ebay. The ones with a picture of Mary or Jesus fetch a handsome price.