Today we’re celebrating I love Free Software Day, where we say a big thank you to the developers and maintainers of free software projects around the world. You are awesome! One such project is LibreOffice, of course – but what does “free software” actually mean? Well, from a purely practical perspective, it means that you […]
  • Nevar@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Hackernews had a good discussion about this. Libreoffice trying to shame people into buying their product instead of making it easier to purchase is the problem and they’re looking for excuses for they’re staff not having the skillset.

    Collabora for example won’t put pricing on their website or allow you to register without talking to their sales staff. Their excuse was that it would be too complicated to implement an online billing system. That doesn’t really hold water when there are one person shops selling saas subscriptions and Collabora has 100+ staff.

    I’m not optimistic about the future of LO. I started using onlyoffice (GPL) instead.

    • poVoq@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      I honestly can’t see how you came to this conclusion, at least not based on this article.

      They literally have only half a sentence about appreciating donations in the lead-in and the rest of the article is about the “libre” part of FLOSS, e.g. that it is free as in freedom and not only as in free beer.

      While in our little FLOSS bubble here that seems like the same old rhetoric, there are genuinely still a lot of people out there who think of OpenOffice (usually they are not even aware of LibreOffice) as the same as some freeware offers such as WPS-Office.