Re:LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for e...
by acqq on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:00AM
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> And it is even worse not to communicate publicly but to reply that people should have followed the relevant mailing list.
From the article: "the community spotted changes to the code that broke the embargo". So it's really like:
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
(from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams)
And it is also a very slippery slope. Let's not forget that the split between a free and a "commercial" version of OpenOffice by Oracle was one of the root causes of the uprising leading to the creation of the TDF.
And it is even worse not to communicate publicly but to reply that people should have followed the relevant mailing list.
We can only be grateful to Collabora and it's employees for the work they do/did on libre office. But somehow, I think that it is a betrayal to all the other individual contributors and the community that supported and advertised the project for years.