Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

[Phil Holmes]

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From: Jan Warchoł
To: David Kastrup ; Mike Solomon ; Kieren MacMillan ; Han-Wen Nienhuys
Cc: LilyPond Development Team
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: Serious feedback and improvement headroom

> Look at what happened with Browser Wars: in the first half of 2000s, 
> Firefox was obviously a
> better browser than IE by orders of magnitude, and nevertheless its 
> adoption was slow.
> Then, when Google Chrome appeared, it had won the first place almost 
> overnight.

You may like to know that here are more Firefox users accessing the LilyPond 
website than Chrome.

> Do you see my point?

No, I'm sorry, I don't.  I don't think LilyPond is in competition with any 
commercial product: it offers a free alternative.  I started using LilyPond 
because I didn't want to pay £100s for something that was not fundamental to 
my life: LilyPond offered something that did essentially the same thing for 
nothing.  To me, there is no competition: that only occurs when products are 
fighting for the same market, and LilyPond is in a different market: i.e. 
free software.

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Phil Holmes