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Why so much talk about the ribbon? This article has nothing to say about that. This is about a Personal Edition and an Enterprise edition and how little revenue
by ulisesrmzroche 6y ago
Why so much talk about the ribbon? This article has nothing to say about that. This is about a Personal Edition and an Enterprise edition and how little revenue its actually coming in.
Basically, libre office won't be libre anymore. Looks like Enterprise is gonna have a commercial license.
By the way, I think the ribbon is far better than the ugly dropdown menus. It's also been over a decade since it was introduced. Some of yall are so resistant to change is bordering on zealotry. I hate to remind everyone about dropbox but dropbox.
- crazygringo 6y ago> Basically, libre office won't be libre anymore The personal version still will be, right? Now this would be something to worry about if all new feature development were put into enterprise, and the personal version stagnated. But from my experience in enterprise software, enterprise features are generally not even applicable to consumer users at all. They're things like single sign-on, approval workflow integration, private cloud integration and whatnot. It's not as if a bugfix for page margins will make it to the enterprise version and not the personal one. So this doesn't feel like something to worry about. If it provides the necessary financial resources to keep the personal edition alive, then I'm all for it.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoYeah I’m cool with it too, it’s just not quote unquote true free software anymore. Which should be big news, but basically the whole first page of comments is all about the MS word ribbon Madness of crowds for sure