It could be that this wasn’t intentional, but I have to agree with Tor here.
If you are using an old version of LO in an official capacity for a business or government, you aren’t in any way obligated to purchase support but morally I think it would be a very good idea to at least think about paying a developer to backport a fix for you. There are a number of companies and individual who I’m sure would be happy to help for compensation. Otherwise, there isn’t any point in being so direct in demanding a fix. If we don’t get paid, then we are volunteers. And even some of us (actually quite a few of us) are paid, we also spend our free time on LO because we love working on code and we want to make a contribution to the good of humanity. But that time isn’t free for you to allocate or demand we do anything. I’m sure that it was just a bad way of wording what you said, but it seems like a demand. Next time, it’s probably a bit nicer if you could have rephrased “Kindly have a look in the issue” to “If it’s not too much trouble, because we are using libreoffice 5.0.2 would someone be able to look into this a bit further?”. You’d still likely be told to consider a support contract, but there might be someone who takes up your case and decides to help without asking for payment. Chris > On 3 Mar 2016, at 6:05 PM, Tor Lillqvist <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > > > We are using libreoffice 5.0.2 due to official reasons. > > Kindly have a look in the issue. > > > That is almost rude, do you realize it? You are insisting on using a version > that is known to have been superseded (with many issues fixed), yet you > assume that people will be wanting to help you for free. If you have > "official" reasons to use a specific outdated version, then you need an > official support contract with some suitable support provider. > > --tml > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
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