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Re:LibreOffice 2020/2025 Marketing Plan [pdf] by aneutron on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:20AM (#23821692)
I feel like this will create another OpenOffice forking into LibreOffice kind of situation.

I can see myself not being able to pay for the Enterprise product, but wanting it, and having the core part available to fork and extend.

It's a noble way to guarantee a good management and funding, but it's still rings different to how Open source feels. I don't know how to explain it, really. I'd say the one project that rings somewhat true to that spirit in my mind would be PostgreSQL.

That being said, I will always use and support LibreOffice and their descendants, should they exist in the future.

Re:LibreOffice 2020/2025 Marketing Plan [pdf] by dtech on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:27AM (#23821764)
Did I miss the presentation saying there will be feature differentiation? As far as I have seen it's all branding and support, so there isn't really a reason to fork for individuals.

There is for enterprise, but at that point why not either purchase support from the authorized companies or join them

Re:LibreOffice 2020/2025 Marketing Plan [pdf] by aneutron on Monday July 13, 2020 @01:00PM (#23822931)
The whole ordeal with the Online part led me to believe there will be feature differentiation. I might be wrong.

It is indeed blurry on this particular matter.