I agree with Andy on this one (even though I didn't include that feature in my original draft.
Reviewing the main goals here. The first of which, I assume is to attract people (users and developers) to help in this initiative and to hopefully help users of other OSes switch over to the Amiga realm. As a Windows user, I'd be happy to hear that OpenOffice on Amiga would be microsoft compatible. Since at that point in time I read this, alot of my documents / spreadsheets, etc etc would already be windows created. :-)
You have to go get the masses and today, the masses are on windows and/or linux.
The key here is to introduce this feature in such a way that it is definitaly noticed, as one of it's main features without microsoft taking over the publicity if you know what I'm saying :-)
Stephane Richard
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Hall" uncharted@ntlworld.com To: openoffice-os4@samfundet.no Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: Re: Why I'm not the PR guy (Re: [OO.org-OS4] Re: AmiGBG)
Hello,
On 26/6/05 7:48 am, "Rose Humphrey" aos4@amont-info.com wrote:
The "broken flow" results from full stops, not from the short punchy phrases. Short punchy phrases are good. Full stops are evil. Lose the full stops.
The presence or absence of full stops have absolutely no bearing on how "punchy" those phrases are. The fact is the reason why the flow of text is "broken" is because there are there are three distinct sentences split into 3 lines. If that doesn't read right then it would be because there is a problem with the sentences chosen. Perhaps the first one could be reworked slightly.
Punctuation has sod all to do with it (aside from being good English).
Microsoft Compatibility is *THE* key feature to OO.o. I doubt there would be even half the interest in it if it wasn't for this. People WANT Microsoft Office compatabilty, people NEED Microsoft Office compatability.
Yes. So tell them it can do *more* than that. If _all_ it offers is Microsoft compatibility, they'll reason that people will just use MS instead. Psychology ;)
But in your suggested phrasing it doesn't tell them anything about the "Holy Grail" feature, just vague marketing speak. Wordworth or AmigaWriter would be able to boast that. Why should they bother supporting a project which is little better than what is already available?
That is, of course, following your assumptions that the people that this is targeting are thick as bricks and don't know anything about anything. Your first argument being based upon some Über-zealot that (hopefully) doesn't exist, the second being based upon some odd amateur psychology that states that all suitable candidates for joining this project are hopelessly defeatist.
Whether you like it or not Microsoft compatibility is the killer feature and it needs to be promoted.
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Thanks,
Andy Hall
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