Hi Peter,
On 07/07/2020 00:46, Peter Dolding wrote:
> Well will all new enterprise need features now appear in the
> "LibreOffice Enterprise" first and then "LibreOffice Enterprise" users
> have to beta test them before they come to Personal Edition?
I think there were some slides which were brainstorming in Italo's deck
around having the enterprise version first, and then some delay etc.
Probably that's still confusing - and you point out some of the problems
with that.
The ask for that didn't come from me / the ecosystem - and I think
there is consensus that this is not a great idea =)
We already have a sensible release-train process with freezes that
everybody understands and works around, and I've not seen concerns
around sticking with that.
That process means that features appear in master, some are back-ported
to product builds and shipped earlier, but the TDF version ends
including shipping them within six months. That gives an incentive to
invest in creating features to differentiate and a lead-time to enjoy
that before the next step on the tread-mill of trying to explain why
people should buy something when there is (apparently) a free enterprise
product --> over there that appears more genuine.
> I have had a lot of cases where I have been able to get Libreoffice in
> next to Microsoft Office at first by it being free and licensed for
> anyone to use.
I'm curious - what happens after that at-first ? do you have a business
that provides support or services ? do they ever pay for anything that
ends up supporting LibreOffice ?
>>> LibreOffice Enterprise: only from ecosystem members
>
> Only from ecosystem members this means if this equals must pay someone
> to get this version lot of my deployments in different businesses of
> Libreoffice would never have happened. Yes I can see those wanting
> to make the "LibreOffice Enterprise" wanting as many paying customers
> as possible.
It seem you deploy LibreOffice in lots of businesses; I'm interested in
your experience of the economics of that.
> There are a lot of projects that do Community and Enterprise editions
> using those names make sense. Personal editions with open source
> software almost never make any sense and normally end up writing
> something in conflict with license or their community.
I'm not sure that 'Community Edition' has a clear meaning to most
people; personally I liked the "LibreOffice Home and Student" as a first
cut ;-) but I can see how that would annoy people. But anyhow -
interesting feedback.
Thanks,
Michael.
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