leginee commented on issue #117: URL: https://github.com/apache/openoffice-org/issues/117#issuecomment-6563219664
> Microsoft, the leading provider of office suite software, is a platinum sponsor of your organization, and the one with the most interest in seeing open alternatives fail. Ensuring that a broken, buggy, obsolete version of their flagship software is the most recognized and SEO optimized version of an open source alternative is good business. But sure, no conflicts of interest at all... Microsoft pushes a lot of ressources into open source. Microsoft did sponsor ODF1.3. I am not sure how much they worked on ODF1.4. The ASF on the other hand is a Stuard of Open Source for over 1000 Project in its portfolio. AOO is only one of many Projects. We are not as important then you think we are. > Your software is one step above a scam. You have a wired understanding of SCAM. > I've seen a great many of elderly people with this on their computer. There are over 700k downloads of it this week. Many of these people don't know any better alternative. and you believe that they would use a different software if we stop? That is a wired logic. I have talked to a lot of users on facebook, and they were aware on their choices. > tricking people into downloading objectively worse software We have no tricks. All we do is maintaining code. > Many of these users will get frustrated and just go back to paying Microsoft It is up to users to make the right choice for them. I am not aware on any data that support this. > I don't really have any sympathy or niceties to give you. Beeing positive / Polite des not mean you need to be supportive to the projects. It means showing respect. Be informed and show that you have knowledge and not do not rant. It means that you work with data that can be independantly reviewed. You just claim wild facts that some people state without having any foundations. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
