https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89246
--- Comment #28 from Yury <yury.tarasiev...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #27)
> > That sort of pruning of "obsolete"/"unneeded" features
>
> Keeping support for Type 1 fonts requires active work and code no one is
> writing. Unless you are volunteering to do the needed work, you are simply
> feel entitled that others do work they don’t won’t to do to support features
> you want.
>
> As you should have seen from the email, we are rewriting the text layout
> engine to be cross-platform and to solve tens of real bugs people have been
> reporting, there is no way we are going to postpone this just to keep
> supporting obsolete technology. You can always choose to not upgrade, or use
> different software or whatever.
Dear Khaled and fellows of the community,
I'm not aspiring to stand with a whip over you or even to suggest that you do
the work you do not fancy.
However, if I may stretch a little what _you_ say, it goes to "we do what we
want and be grateful" (in the very spirit of Bruce Sterling rant on OSS).
May I remind you that the only real payout on the (unpaid) OSS work, excepting
the "fame" or CV stuff, is user base/support? Those nameless fellas throughout
the world who trust the (general use) software "with absolutely no guarantees",
often in the face of workplace/etc. opposition/opinion? By taking out features
(ANY features) you are undermining their position, you know.
In other words, OSS is not charity, with one side doing what it pleases, and
the other side meekly accepting anything it's thrown (or getting stuffed; Bruce
Sterling again, it seems). OSS is a process which entitles some responsibility
on the devs side, after all.
And I wouldn't get so proud of LibreOffice development results in the last
couple of years, anyway. Series 3 was okay, but in series 4 and 5 it got bulky
and unsafe. I'm having lots of issues, some of them work-stopping, which take
devs years to even look at, and now I'm actually waiting with my breath hold
for a completion of the "big project" here to move the LO out of the principal
workflow. Unsafe for the real work, after 20 years of use, SO/OO/LO became,
what?
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