2015-03-16 0:42 GMT+02:00 Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com>: Hi Joel, >> Of course these are my wishes on user side :) And 1,2 are missing >> features for enterprise usage which we extensively used in companies. > IMHO - GSoC should not be used in order to subsidize enterprise users > desires. If this is an enterprise feature - let them pay for support to > get it enabled. > > Just my two cents - I'm not a fan of subsidizing others to make money > off of LibreOffice. This only encourages these companies to continue to > "sit on the sidelines" instead of becoming a member of the community by > using some of the funds that they save by using LibreOffice (over our > competitors) to help fund development within the project.
I understand you. But there is no a certain borders between enterprise usage and regular usage, it is an office software and most of regular users (also small companies) should benefit from them too. Can you clearly seperate personale needs and corporate needs? For example improved docx support, is it a corporate need or personal need? Should it be left as corporates interchanges docs more often? In addtion these are not new or innovative needs for certain compaines, these are the functionalities those are already exists in other office software, and creates gaps with LibreOffice. I cannot ask a small company owner to donate thousands of euros (may be greater then their licence cost for years) to have such basic needs while i promote LibreOffice them to reduce their licencing costs. I ask them for a decent and regular donation... It is really hard to do marketing in developing countries such as our country, and it can take years to us to find corporate sponsors to add such 'old' functionalites to LibreOffice. It can be a long discussion and has many perspectives; marketing, free software awareness, free riders etc. I don't know if there is a policy that seperates enterprise needs and leaves them to be funded from companeis, if so having a funding pool may be good and we can drive SME's to donate there, otherwise it becomes irrational to promote LibreOffice to them. Regards, Zeki _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
