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It seems like this whole thing could be solved by renaming the tag from "Personal Edition" to "Lite Edition" or something. People want to use and "office" produ
by davidhyde 6y ago
It seems like this whole thing could be solved by renaming the tag from "Personal Edition" to "Lite Edition" or something. People want to use and "office" product for work, duh. The document foundation keep arguing that funding is needed and the users keep arguing that they want a free version for commercial use and that naming is important because "the boss won't read the license agreement but look at the name! Personal Edition"
Why are people on the defensive always so blinded by the obvious? If you understand what people are getting upset about then, on the first line of the letter, they should state, unambiguously, exactly what people are having an issue with. Instead, the introduction is about the success of LibraOffice which is not contended and actually somewhat irrelevant. Then this:
> So it is a bit surprising to see the project's core developers in a sort of crisis mode while users worry about a tag that showed up in the project's repository
This sentence just tells the reader that you still don't understand what the fuss is about because you are referring to past good will and not the simple fact that the name is wrong. Readers want to know that you understand their point of view before they are willing to read about your point of view.
- mrob 6y ago"Lite Edition" isn't much better. The usual name for this kind of thing is "Community Edition", which has no negative connotations. But I don't see why it needs any special name. The LibreOffice brand is already harmed by the continued existence of OpenOffice, which many people still think of as the default free (as in beer) office suite despite its obsolescence. Complicating the LibreOffice name will only make things worse. IMO it should remain plain "LibreOffice", and the paid support version can be "LibreOffice Enterprise Edition".
- zucker42 6y agoSomeone from TDF responded to a similar comment on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ho0n51/update_on_libreoffice_naming_and_tdfs_ecosystem/fxfer3k/?context=2 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ho0n51/update_on_lib...