Hi Alex, On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 19:21 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: > "enterprise stability" can/will only be expected in the LibreOffice > product if companies / administrations / large user bases buy support > contracts ?
So - it is fairly clear that TDF will not be providing enterprise support itself - and it is clear that others are/will-be. If you are a large enterprise or government, I would view it as a madness not to have a support relationship with someone. That is, unless ( through the merit generated by your good works, and other contributions :-) you can persuade various developers to care about and fix your bugs on whatever deployed version of LibreOffice you happen to be using, and are happy you can wangle that sort of thing in some timely fashion each time there is an issue. Of course, lots of people disagree with me. They tend also to rave about the joys of running production servers using the latest bleeding edge, volunteer created, compile-from-source kernel + apache ( for a web example ;-) so ... it is clear that one-size does not fit all here. But I personally would question the sanity of that ;-) Also - the idea of corporate entities that can pay - simply avoiding supporting development financially, and instead trying to arm-twist volunteers and others into fixing their bugs is not that flattering: I'm sure neither of us would want to encourage that. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted