Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

Hi Mike,

> "(...) I think it's fair to call it a successor project (...)"
If you think so, I agree :) (y)
After all it`s just a word, heritor, successor, or whatever.
Everybody understands ...
Sometimes I'm nitpicking. And "If you spent less time nitpicking, you'd get
more work done.".

Cheers,

Filipe Gomes Morgado *is using:*


On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 10:41, Ravi Dwivedi <ravi@ravidwivedi.in> wrote:

>  > Try submitting a bug report to Microsoft. They want you to pay like
>  > (US)$40 for the privilege. Contrast this with LO and other free software
>  > projects, where one can log into a bug tracker, submit the report, and
>  > hear back from the developers without even touching one's wallet or
>  > keying in a credit card number.
>  >
>  > Yes, someone has to pay for development but simply submitting a bug
>  > report shouldn't cost money on top of what one paid for the
>  > (proprietary) software, which in theory is being sold/licensed per
>  > "seat" primarily to cover the cost of support.
>  >
>  > In theory, yes, MS can plagiarize the bug tracker model LO uses.
>  > Honestly, given it's already quite tedious and odious to deal with bugs
>  > in MS software, I wish they would.
>
> I would say that the main issue is that you cannot fix the bug yourself
> and that also means you cannot hire someone to fix it and it is not a
> matter of how easy it is to submit a bug report. MS Office is a nonfree
> software which users do not control.
>
> Let's think of ways on how to emphasize that. The day Microsoft makes it
> easy to submit a bug report, it does not make it acceptable for me to
> use MS Office.
>
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