Moving to LibreOffice 8?

[Italo Vignoli]

Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing 
purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in 
the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is 
that we are forever stuck at 7.x.

We all know that the next version will not include any significant 
innovation which can justify the change of version, apart from the new 
build system for Windows and the availability of LibreOffice for Arm 
processors on Windows (which has not been announced).

Playing with the number 8, which can be rotated 90° to become the 
"infinite" symbol, we can frame the next version as LibreOffice for an 
infinite number of users, as we cover all hardware platforms and all 
operating systems for personal productivity.

This is my opinion. If the community wants to stick with 7.6, I won't 
insist. I have received enough insults both public and private for the 
marketing plan, and I am still receiving them from a few people, that I 
am not willing to enter into that process again (even if the decision on 
the "community" tag has not been mine, but it looks like people have a 
very short memory).

Looking forward to your thoughts.
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