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 […]
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.
You’re right, I thought this was the other Document Foundation article referenced on this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054160
Interesting discussion. This one struck a chord