https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146661
--- Comment #3 from John ---
And the following bullshit is from LibreOffice Facebook official page:
> Using the wrong office suite could cost you your job! Check
> out this post from Twitter – someone is locked out of their
> documents in Microsoft Office. This happens a lot.
>
> But this wouldn't happen with LibreOffice! Our software
> respects your freedom and privacy, and doesn't lock you in.
> Help us spread the word about our free office suite, used
> by millions around the world <...>
One of the user there commented:
> I love LibreOffice, but see no need to shit-talk your competitor...
And the LO folks who manage the page answer:
> If a product locks people out of their OWN documents, even
> when they've paid for it, that's not "sh*t-talking" – that's
> pointing out how terrible that situation is! LibreOffice
> stands on its own feet and we don't normally talk about
> proprietary products, but it's important to make people aware
> that there's an alternative...
But of course, they won't say you that Writer will silently harm your
documents. That it can silently remove the formatting or images. And that you
will not be even aware about this until you open the documents later. And these
documents, of course, can be very valuable.
So, open-source folks blame Microsoft for the FUD propaganda, but the same FUD
propaganda, mixed with a quasi-religious bullshit aka "help them to spreading
the word" is what they use to promote their buggy crapware.
And using LO is not really "free" for us, users. Saying that "LO doesn't cost
you money, so you users cannot blame it" is bullshit. When you, developers and
managers, know that your software have _so_ many bugs and _so_ many bugs have
critical impact to the workflow, and these bugs are so easy for users to face
with them, it is just unfair to promote your software as something that is
ready for end-users, you simply lie them. They trust you, they think that
"stable" releases are really stable (but in fact these releases are alpha ones)
and "fresh" releases are unstable just a little (these releases are in fact
pre-alpha ones), they spend days and weeks testing and reporting dozens and
hundreds of bugs, they spend days and weeks fixing their broken documents
because they hope that this nightmare is something occasional and temporary.
But no, it is neither occasional nor temporary.
I leave this message here not because I think it has any value to you, of
course. But because it will be a good reminder for myself. And because it will
be possible to provide a link to people who are thinking about to start using
LO.
I really don't care whether you ban me or not. But if someone think that I'm
"just a random guy who never really tried LO", he/she can check the bugs I have
reported for several years. There are many of them. I also have 2 additional
account, so you can multiply this number by 3.
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