[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Moving to LibreOffice 8?

For little that I am involved with LibreOffice itself,
I feel like this would be  nice move -

You can take this as a non-formal feedback of the
casual user public: +1 for 8.0, even without a lot
of remarkable changes.

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org> wrote:

> Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing
> purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in
> the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is
> that we are forever stuck at 7.x.
>
> We all know that the next version will not include any significant
> innovation which can justify the change of version, apart from the new
> build system for Windows and the availability of LibreOffice for Arm
> processors on Windows (which has not been announced).
>
> Playing with the number 8, which can be rotated 90° to become the
> "infinite" symbol, we can frame the next version as LibreOffice for an
> infinite number of users, as we cover all hardware platforms and all
> operating systems for personal productivity.
>
> This is my opinion. If the community wants to stick with 7.6, I won't
> insist. I have received enough insults both public and private for the
> marketing plan, and I am still receiving them from a few people, that I
> am not willing to enter into that process again (even if the decision on
> the "community" tag has not been mine, but it looks like people have a
> very short memory).
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.
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