<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI: Branding: LibreOffice Personal edition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486#c37">Comment # 37</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI: Branding: LibreOffice Personal edition" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486">bug 134486</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:telesto@surfxs.nl" title="Telesto <telesto@surfxs.nl>"> Telesto</a> <pre>(In reply to Timur from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=134486#c36">comment #36</a>) > Much was said by TDF members and users and I think that consensus was > reached. > Shall this disastrous, LO anniversary ruining move be reverted? That's the easy part. However it doesn't solve the fundamental underlying problem. This didn't come out of nowhere, it's lingering around quite some time now. LibreOffice being freely available for everyone, but mostly made possible by - code contributions - of a (few) eco-system partners. With the intention of making money by selling services. Their 'product' is currently limited to services, as the code public and 'LibreOffice' being the brand. However, the interest in these services is as good as absent. Enterprises/business are using LibreOffice without contributing money and/or code. Reasons enough. They don't care, they don't have to. >From the perspective of eco-system partners 'free rider' as the assumed they could make some money of it. Especially in Enterprise environments. So their business model isn't working The "Personal edition" is 'intended' to 'cajole' company's into pay for Enterprise edition or something like that. It's a conflict between ideals and reality. The eco-system partner are giving the code away for free, without the (expected) returns. This can't go on for ever. Money needs to be generated by the eco-system partners (and/or TDF) to keep LibreOffice afloat/alive. LibreOffice is lost without the eco-system partners contributing (or in another model TDF hiring eco-system partners or TDF hiring a number of developers). However, if TDF increases spending to pay the bills of people involved professionally.. how does TDF generate that kind of money? Donations are unreliable, I assume. So the key question seems to be: how can LibreOffice be monetized, while respecting the ideals. A good read: <a href="https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04591.html">https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/msg04591.html</a></pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>