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It's one thing for you to put a banner up on your web page, which I will see when I visit you. I can just choose not to visit, if I don't want to see your messa

It's one thing for you to put a banner up on your web page, which I will see when I visit you. I can just choose not to visit, if I don't want to see your message. It's another thing for you to put a banner inside my computer, on the software I use to manage my own data: that ought to be a tool I use for my own purposes, and not a place for you to do what you want. A tool which starts acting as an agent for its developers, not as an agent for me, is not a tool I want to continue using.

alex_duf 7mo ago
The same way you can decide to not visit a website, you can decide to not use LibreOffice. I think it makes sense, how else are they supposed to fundraise and develop the features that makes the software useful to manage your own data?
- mikkupikku 7mo ago
  How are you supposed to make an informed decision to simply not use libreoffice when they pop something like this on people unannounced, undisclosed, without precedent?
atoav 7mo ago
If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you might also want trust them on this decision. Unless of course you know better than them about what it needs to keep the software alive you run regularly.
atoav 7mo ago
If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you might also consider trusting them on this decision. Unless of course you know better than them about what it needs to keep the software alive, in which case you might wanna give them a hint (e.g. by detailing how you would imagine it would work instead in terms of finances).

alex_duf 7mo ago

The same way you can decide to not visit a website, you can decide to not use LibreOffice. I think it makes sense, how else are they supposed to fundraise and develop the features that makes the software useful to manage your own data?

mikkupikku 7mo ago
How are you supposed to make an informed decision to simply not use libreoffice when they pop something like this on people unannounced, undisclosed, without precedent?

atoav 7mo ago

If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you might also want trust them on this decision. Unless of course you know better than them about what it needs to keep the software alive you run regularly.

atoav 7mo ago

If I create software I can do whatever the heck I want and that includes displaying a billion banners. And you got the right to not use my software. If you trust the makers of LibreOffice enough to run their software on your machine, you might also consider trusting them on this decision. Unless of course you know better than them about what it needs to keep the software alive, in which case you might wanna give them a hint (e.g. by detailing how you would imagine it would work instead in terms of finances).