LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
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Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#2This was bound to happen and I feel sad.
I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding.
What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is.
The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they need to acquire. Foss be damned.
During this time, I learned that all the "donations" to tdf are used for "conferences and shit" instead of what as donors we assume it would be used for, "paying developers" because of some stupid quirk, they cannot "compete with businesses" or other nonsense.
I have started using calligra office and it has been a similar experience. Nothing to write home about but still not depressing as libreoffice gets at times. I dont know, onlyoffice flipped against the "community edition" by restricting features and I feel LO going there slowly because of "early business advanced features" in the business edition that would come because of this change. That leaves us with calligra office suite which is still holding out but yeah, my money is now on that. Note: i have been a OpenOffice /libreoffice user since 2008 I think so I have been using it for over 12-13 years.
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#3This was bound to happen and I feel sad. I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding. What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is. The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they nee…
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive.
One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf?
Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are mostly non-programmers.
I know PDF is by adobe and Docx is by microsoft.
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#4This was bound to happen and I feel sad. I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding. What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is. The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they nee…
Exactly, TDF hires only admin staff, leaving the actual development to volunteers and other companies.
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#5This was bound to happen and I feel sad. I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding. What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is. The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they nee…
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive. One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf? Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are…
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#6Why would a business get off community edition with LibreOffice? If they wanted to pay for office, wouldn’t they just go Microsoft?
I get that they want funds to develop LibreOffice but it’s not like the money is being spent on development at all.
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#7Why would a business get off community edition with LibreOffice? If they wanted to pay for office, wouldn’t they just go Microsoft? I get that they want funds to develop LibreOffice but it’s not like the money is being spent on development at all.
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Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive. One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf? Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are…
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
That's not about docx.
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#9This was bound to happen and I feel sad. I contributed my inputs to the discussion threat that raised the issue of "community" branding. What I said was: keep the current libreoffice as is because that is what it is. Additionally, go and create another "business office" or whatever you care about but leave libreoffice as is. The businesses behind this move, collabora et al see libreoffice as another "market" they nee…
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive. One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf? Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are…
I think the single biggest thing that OpenOffice achieved was the ODT file format.
Showing that an open file format could do everything was a big part of forcing Microsoft to switch from .doc to .docx, which is much more open
Re: LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs
#10Why would a business get off community edition with LibreOffice? If they wanted to pay for office, wouldn’t they just go Microsoft? I get that they want funds to develop LibreOffice but it’s not like the money is being spent on development at all.
Don't partners like Collabora hire devs?
"TDF highlights that 73% of commits are from developers employed by these partners, including Collabora, Red Hat and CIB/allotropia, which are made in the course of supporting their enterprise customers."