<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#c52">Comment # 52</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:fuchs_frank@freenet.de" title="Frank Fuchs <fuchs_frank@freenet.de>"> Frank Fuchs</a> <pre>As we were all encouraged by Lothar Becker to give our feedback on the mailing list or in this bugzilla entry, here's mine: * The rapid further development of LibreOffice - same as in the past years - is relatively heavily dependent on some companies willing to have their employees spend time on it. If we were "just" to rely on non-comapny paid resources to improve LO, we'd not be where we are today and the future would likely show that LO would lag more and more behind MS Office and other products. * However, it is a FUNDAMENTAL basis for the LibreOffice ecosystem, that the world knows it is open source, free to use, ... * This relies on both a legal basis AND on perception. The legal basis is to remain unchanged, perception is the problem. So, how can we protect what the LO ecosystem knows and perceives about LO being "open and free" - while at the same time encouraging enterprise customers to support the ecosystem monetarily? * It seems obvious that the LO version with "Enterprise Support" should get an additional name tag for marketing purposes (in my eyes, marketing should decide on this name tag) * Adding a name tag to the "normal" LO version runs the risk of damaging the perception (see above). However, not adding a tag at all does not improve the situation for the LO company contributors. Therefore, to me, it seems logical to add a name tag to the "normal" LO version which does not damage the perception. * Adding "Community Edition" seems to fulfill both purposes: it implies there is also some other edition while at the same time protecting the perception that LO is open and free to use. * Adding "Personal Edition" clearly does not fulfill our requirements - as can be seen by the reactions of current LO users, it would damage the perception substantially. In a nutshell my recommendation / opinion is: * add "Community Edition" to the normal version * add another name tag to the version with Enterprise Support (name to be chosen by marketing)</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>