My xxxx is bigger than yours [LWN.net]

My xxxx is bigger than yours

Posted May 3, 2012 17:39 UTC (Thu) by Fats (subscriber, #14882)
Parent article: An uphill battle for LibreOffice

I don't understand these 'my xxxx is bigger than yours' reasoning in the open source world. LO seems to have enough development support to have a bright future and together with AOO it can slowly but truly put some dent in the Microsoft Office dominated world.
I don't see how the relative market share or name recognition is important unless you want to keep on living in the past and continue the SUN/Oracle vs Novell infighting.

Disclaimer: I am libreoffice users by choice.

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My xxxx is bigger than yours

Posted May 4, 2012 0:13 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I don't know what are the particular motivations of people who want better name recognition for LibreOffice, but I can think of two that involve more honorable goals than just ego stroking:

If LO is better than OO/AOO and people don't know about it, they have less office tool function available to them and won't be as productive.
If people believe OO is the best open source has to offer, and it doesn't compete against Microsoft Office as well as LO, then non-free software dominance benefits. Many people think that's a bad thing.