LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs

Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by ksec on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:37AM (#26056102)

>Apache Foundation

I can understand Oracle, but why Apache?

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by dsr_ on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:43AM (#26056146)

I don't think that there's a problem trusting the Apache Foundation. I think that under the Apache Foundation's supervision, OpenOffice did nearly nothing in the last five years, while LibreOffice fixed bugs and added features.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by core-questions on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:47AM (#26056171)

There is a long history of open source projects going to Apache being like sending an old racehorse 'to the farm'.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by johannes1234321 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:46AM (#26056164)

Libre office was actually created earlier, while Sun was still at the helm. When Oracle took over it got more mindshare only a short bit later Oracle "donated" it to the ASF.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by indymike on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:13PM (#26057306)

The fear was the product would not advance.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by empressplay on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:22PM (#26057393)

Is this really a problem for businesses though? My experience is they're generally pretty conservative when it comes to upgrades.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by mathfailure on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:20PM (#26058772)

Yes, in cases like this (no foss office is on-par by quality and functionality w/ Microsoft Office).

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