Re:LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for e...
by type0 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:57AM
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> Vignoli said that "the ecosystem is not growing as much as the community." He also referred to "frictions" in the community, caused by tensions between the commercial and community project members, "which are not beneficial to the health of the project".
It's not beneficial and unfortunately TDF is making it worse. Essentially they are moving to Open Core model, a la Gitlab
> Differentiating between free and commercial versions, and delaying release of the free version, could satisfy both sides, the presentation suggests.
That could not satisfy both sides, even suggesting it means that community would be a second class citizen regardless of how they wanna call it. This along with the recent moves from Qt company is attempts to have the cake and eat it too.
It's not beneficial and unfortunately TDF is making it worse. Essentially they are moving to Open Core model, a la Gitlab
> Differentiating between free and commercial versions, and delaying release of the free version, could satisfy both sides, the presentation suggests.
That could not satisfy both sides, even suggesting it means that community would be a second class citizen regardless of how they wanna call it. This along with the recent moves from Qt company is attempts to have the cake and eat it too.