Hi All,
A ESC agenda item proposal
The LibreOffice MacOS support is pretty dramatic. No surprise without
a Mac developer around; or maybe one? No developers/ or no developers
with macs. The Mac code is legacy as far I know. There are enough
depreciation warning within the code. It still surprises me it's still
working; more or less. It really needs some love.
However Mac users are a relatively 'small' group of users. Getting
smaller with every broken release. Fixing if for free while mac users
can afford macs is makes the situation not easier. There must be some
way out of this deadlock. To make LibreOffice Mac great again.
We come in a area where 'open source' and 'commercial interest' meet
each other. The problematic part. I wish a company could step up and
fix/hack the current issue and bring the old mac code to modern
standards. However it makes no sense doing this for free. There some be
some time to get a return on investments. Impossible if the code flows
into TDF builds directly. Maybe a work around would be a to make the
code public, however TDF/Libreoffice holding releasing pre-builds
versions with updated code for a certain time-frame? Or a company
sponsored crowdfunding project? I would even consider TDF to release new
MacOS builds, they are broken for most users anyway. Not sure if this
fits into to the TDF principles and Legal area etc. Only hoping for a
solution.
Regards,
Telesto
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