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Registered: Oct 2009 Location: England Distribution: Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, Proxmox. Posts: 553

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Office software stands out as the one area in which, if OpenOffice and LibreOffice are counted together as they are technically almost identical, there's least competition. In other areas no one program got more than 3/4 of the vote; OOo and LibO combined have over 7/8 of the office sector on Linux. I think that's crying out for some credible competition. In my experience, KOffice is not up to much, while Abiword's focussing on lightness rather than full features. If LibO and OOo diverge, we may see some competition, but not if LibO "tracks" OOo or if development on OOo ceases.



I wonder if "Gnome-Office" lost votes from people unaware it means "Abiword and Gnumeric" though. Perhaps office software should be separated out? I for one have historically preferred OO Writer and Gnumeric, the latter used to be much more powerful for graphs than OO Calc. (OO's since caught up I think, but I still do like Gnumeric.)



Other things to note: a remarkable result that RHEL+CentOS exactly tie Debian.



Things that got zero votes shouldn't be on the pie chart I think.



A bit surprised at VLC dominating its poll so much. I expected a more even balance between it and mplayer.



I concur with folkenfanel's comment in the "Welcome to the awards" thread that we should have at least a category for mathematical and scientific software. Amongst the more obvious candidates, it might also be a place to put LaTeX, since while not limited to maths papers, it's very often used for them.



Finally, I reckon it would be really nice to see some trends across the years. What's rising, what's falling, what's forked?