https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37134
--- Comment #96 from Roland Hughes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Todd from comment #94) > (In reply to Roland Hughes from comment #93) > > > What we are experiencing here is the downside of the open source economics > model. You give the code away for free, then hold the user hostage for > corrections and enhancements. And the developers do deserve to be paid for > what they do. Unfortunately, individuals can not afford to to put the > developers on their payroll. So this very, very legitimate request gets > ignored year after year after year. Weeel, I paid money for a 5-user license of Textmaker not all that long ago because the free version didn't support running page headers/footers and a few other things. I do not pay for or use their Cloud/online stuff. OnlyOffice gives away the desktop editors/software for free and sells subscriptions to their cloud/online version used by companies. They did a bang-up job on the desktop editors which run on Linux and many other platforms and they really focused on the collaboration aspect when they went to the cloud services so OnlyOffice is pretty well funded with lots of new features. It appears LibreOffice online was a complete bust. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/ I'm old so please forgive me if the gray cells cross something but . . . StarOffice 5.2 had _a_ multi-tab feature (which might have been multiple documents) StarOffice was the predecessor to OpenOffice, was it not? Somewhere in the middle between OpenOffice and Oracle's consumption of SUN Microsystems IBM took the OpenOffice code base and created Lotus Symphony (not to be confused with the MS DOS version of Lotus Symphony) which actually supported multiple tabs. https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/lotus-symphony/ After or about the time there-of the creation of LibreOffice IBM decided the had the new editor they wanted for Lotus Notes and they released the Lotus Symphony code back to the project. So it's not really a "new feature" request but more of an excavate and find out how this got lost request. The dirty little secret about funding OpenSource projects is that you have to have a solid code base prior to asking for support contracts and large donations. Stability == revenue stream Large sweeping changes so files can't be used between versions == welfare Christmas > > I personally use the wildly abandoned Word Pro, which runs circles around > LO, and LO when I have to share things with customers. There are many times I am tempted to set up an OS/2 Warp machine so I can have Lotus SmartSuite again. Thankfully I'm writing more software than books right now. The last book I wrote with LO is my book on Emacs. I had to use Craigslist to find an editor that would use LO and Linux Mint. That was before Christmas. After posting this I'm going to fire them because they are still not done. For previous books there was always someone on ServiceScape that would do it and give me a professional editing job in just a couple weeks. Nobody on ServiceScape will touch LO anymore and that is the largest pool of quality freelance editors I have found in my 30+ years of writing. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
