@jwildeboer
I agree - also on the point that there is ego and ... difficult personalities on both sides. But there is also a structual issue beyond the egos that goes back longer than LibreOffice itself: the problematic understanding of #opensource as "free as in beer" and of LibreOffice as a product and not as a project/community. The latter would have broken this at some point even without toxic personalities.
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Some folks at Microsoft and Google (and maybe even the new EuroOffice people) are very happy about all the infighting in the LibreOffice/TDF/Collabora community, I guess. -
Some folks at Microsoft and Google (and maybe even the new EuroOffice people) are very happy about all the infighting in the LibreOffice/TDF/Collabora community, I guess.@jwildeboer
The original sin was the public perception that TDF was controlling the development of #LibreOffice. It never was and as a German NGO mostly cannot even do that in the way its users expect. The deadly follow up mistake was trying to directly hire devs: it doesnt scale and the foundation has no competent leadership to direct them anyway.Instead TDF should have invested in diversifing LibreOffice dev contributor base with volunteers or other parties to replace the diversity once SuSE/RedHat/Canonical disinvested and the core devs were more and more monopolized. It failed to do so out of foolish anti "developer" sentiment.
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HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".@cstross
So, which business models are obsoleted now that compute is a commodity?Is it maybe the folks that scream you need AI in everything, so that more datacenters need to be build? Cant allow people to be happy on decade old hardware because that is dampening demand.