Hi y'all, Mike Saunders wrote: > Well, one argument is that we have very limited resources to support two > branches. LibreOffice 7.5 won't be around forever, so at some point we'll > need to push people to update to 7.6/8.0, as the previous version won't be > maintained and could potentially have security issues. > I know this is missing the point on purpose: but just to state that for the above problem, there's a technical solution called auto-update (which is on the tender project list since a while). > [means to an end] > > IMO, it's a lot like the whole "using proprietary services to reach users" > debate. Arguably, as a FOSS project, we should avoid closed platforms like > Twitter and Facebook. But we make a compromise and are active on those > platforms, because they are very effective for reaching new users and > communicating with them. > And I agree with that notion in general. The most obvious utilitarian argument this project is making, is to invest a ton of effort into supporting proprietary platforms like Windows and macOS, for our **main** user base. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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