Hi Uwe, On 13/07/2020 11:01, Uwe Altmann wrote: > TLTR?: Become a professional managed organization
I imagine it's not just Italo that has concerns with that =) > Teach people that LibreOffice is not the gratis version of MS > Office but a real great idea which they can and shall support > in various ways. Totally behind that; marketing more of the project and less of a gratis product. > Till this field, then economic returns can be seeded and grow there; > and this is something TDF can do. Clearly we need to educate people. > Don't try to force the TDF to do what it cannot (by statutes > and/or by law) do Of course. > if it is a really important issue, create an independent > structure for it. The ecosystem though has a lot of competing independent structures, each with different strengths, and interest in bringing LibreOffice to different niches. Clearly having more players there would be good, though having a single hyper-privileged one would not. But possibly new structures are needed I suppose. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, GM Collabora Productivity Hangout: mejme...@gmail.com, Skype: mmeeks (M) +44 7795 666 147 - timezone usually UK / Europe -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy