Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 20, 2015 16:01 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much? by ovitters
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Perhaps, but on the other hand my experience that just brief show of Microsoft Office ribbon makes all previous users of Office (either OOo or MSO before 2005) asking me for some alternative. So far the Ribbon turned to me to be the best advertising for the LibreOffice.

Just saying.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 21, 2015 0:05 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (1 responses)

This isn't necessarily a useful piece of information regarding how well the interface works. There are always hold-outs whenever an interface changes, and the more radical the change the more of them there will be. That resistance speaks more to the immediate cost of learning the new interface than it does to its long-term value.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 21, 2015 9:43 UTC (Fri) by jonnor (guest, #76768) [Link]

And once people have invested and become accustomed to 'the new interface' (ribbon) then going back is a change which requires similar immediate costs.