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I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely. RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it? Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something? If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. I also prefer efforts put on Wayla…
I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely. RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it? Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something? If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. I also prefer efforts put on Wayla…
> If it does not make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. This assumes companies don't make mistakes. They do. A lot. And if users aren't allowed to voice concern then they will make many more mistakes.
Something "making sense" does not mean mistakes are not possible.
Assuming only idiots make mistakes is rather black-and-white.
LibreOffice comes with its own support these days... RPMs are provided out of the box too. So it makes sense.
That’s not what support means. Who can you call if you have a technical issue with LibreOffice? One possible answer used to be Red Hat if you had the entreprise version and a support contract.
Red Hat knows if their customers are buying Red Hat license to get support for LibreOffice. I would assume this is a case only for very small number of customers, as Red Hat is mostly focusing on server product. And today companies can buy the same support from LibreOffice directly, so there is no point for Red Hat to compete against LibreOffice here. It's win win.
I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely. RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it? Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something? If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. I also prefer efforts put on Wayla…
I think most commenters on lwn are misunderstanding this gravely. RHEL not supporting LibreOffice doesn't mean you can still install it, right? It just means RH won't offer support for it? Also does not mean you must use Flatpak to use it, does it? Am I missing something? If it does make sense business-wise, it's their call. I'm pretty sure they know their userbase and did the math. I also prefer efforts put on Wayla…
then its a badly written headline
In a linux distro, when it "support" a package means that you can contact its maintainers for help (bugs and etc) on the package.
So the headline means that RHEL won't help you to install LibreOffice. There are always other way to install it though.
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They warn that it's a lot of work. It would have been interesting to know how much ... is this a sign that RH can't afford to run their business?
People are saying 'well, easy enough to install it from elsewhere' but surely the point is a major Linux company are no longer willing/able to support a principle business application. I'm assuming that support also included bug-fixes, packaging fixes, and such.