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The ability to run LibreOffice on just about every mainstream processor and OS strikes me as a major achievement which ought to be shouted from the hilltops. Debian does the same and is known as "The universal operating system". Perhaps LO should become known
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No other office suite comes close in that context. It surely warrants something better than a point release.</div>
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I like the concept of turning the number 8 on its side, though there would inevitably be comments about the concept of "infinity point one" when the subsequent release hits the streets..........</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 March 2023 18:11<br>
<b>To:</b> TDF Devs <libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org>; TDF Marketing <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>; TDF Design <design@global.libreoffice.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing
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purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in <br>
the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is <br>
that we are forever stuck at 7.x.<br>
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We all know that the next version will not include any significant <br>
innovation which can justify the change of version, apart from the new <br>
build system for Windows and the availability of LibreOffice for Arm <br>
processors on Windows (which has not been announced).<br>
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Playing with the number 8, which can be rotated 90° to become the <br>
"infinite" symbol, we can frame the next version as LibreOffice for an <br>
infinite number of users, as we cover all hardware platforms and all <br>
operating systems for personal productivity.<br>
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This is my opinion. If the community wants to stick with 7.6, I won't <br>
insist. I have received enough insults both public and private for the <br>
marketing plan, and I am still receiving them from a few people, that I <br>
am not willing to enter into that process again (even if the decision on <br>
the "community" tag has not been mine, but it looks like people have a <br>
very short memory).<br>
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Looking forward to your thoughts.<br>
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