Thanks for clarifying. Speculations arise when there is uncertainty. The proposal for two different editions is an unexpected and unprecedented move.
The word 'personal' is not same in "personal computer" and "personal edition". Personal computer can be used in offices, but is "forbidden", whereas the proposed "personal edition intended for individual use" (i hate the name and tag) works in your office and is "unrestricted". ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:24 PM, Italo Vignoli <it...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > On 7/9/20 6:35 PM, Aravind Palla wrote: > > > - that there will be no change of license; > > Based on what you assume there can be a change of license, the marketing > plan says exactly the opposite, i.e. we do stay loyal to the copyleft > license, which is one of the pillars of the project. > > > - that there will be no 'exclusive' features for the proposed enterprise > > edition other than dedicated support like priority bug-fixing, help, etc.; > > Same as above. > > > - that the LibreOffice Community Edition will function as effectively as > > the proposed LibreOffice Enterprise Edition without any restrictions; > > Same as above. > > > - that the intention of the board is not to commercialize the office > > suite which creates commotion among the great community that has been > > supporting LibreOffice since years; > > Same as above. > > > - that the board respects the principles of freedom (libre) software. > > Same as above. > > Sorry, but speculating on topics which are not even mentioned by the > marketing plan does not help at all. Using the word personal, as in > personal computer, does not imply anything of the above. > > Yes, the word "personal" can be misunderstood by community members, as > only one person - a Fedora contributor - got it right, but it was chosen > also to avoid the potential issues of the word "community", which is > used by many open core projects for the free and feature limited version > (a quick search provides the following: Alfresco, Bacula, Bonita Studio, > FengOffice, GitLab, Knowage, Liferay, MySQL, NXLog, Odoo, OnlyOffice, > OpenClinica, OpenKM, OpenProject, OpenVPN, Shopware, SonarQube, SugarCRM > and Visual Paradigm). > > Best regards. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR > mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email it...@libreoffice.org > hangout/jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com - skype italovignoli > GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 > DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
