| ▲ | MarkusQ 5 hours ago |
| Pro tip: If you're trying to raise awareness of an issue that's important to you, don't lard up your exposition with sarcasm, insider references and incomprehensible innuendo. If all you manage to communicate is that you're unhappy, people may feel sorry for you but they won't know why. Say what you mean in plain language; explain the issues and why they matter, and let your readers come to their own conclusions. |
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| ▲ | jollymonATX 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This exactly sums up my read of this. I have no idea what is going on but it appears to impact a thing I use in my nextcloud so I should possibly care, but damned if I have any idea what is going on here. |
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| ▲ | mejmeeks 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm sorry it's confusing, perhaps an attempt to add humor to a bleak and dramatic change in the LibreOffice project has made it less than clear.
The bald facts are fairly simple: The Document Foundation, now ~controlled by its non-programmer staff just ejected its main core code contributors based on complicated and apparently contrived reasons. Lots of non-profits get bogged down in pointless in-fighting that eats away at their purpose sadly. |
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| ▲ | mijoharas 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What are the complicated apparently contrived reasons? It's not at all clear from the article. All I really got from the article is "collabora are banned from contributing to open office, and aren't happy about it". What reason did they give? What's the actual reason you think it is (you mention things are contrived, so I assume there's another reason you think)? What's the libre office online stuff got to do with it? All of this is unclear from the article. | |
| ▲ | Imustaskforhelp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hey Michael, that's alright but can you perhaps edit the article to have all the facts clear out there in the manner that Markus has said. There are times to be satirical, don't get me wrong, but those are usually when the dust is settled and maybe a reminiscence on the past. Have a nice day and I hope that something positive comes out of all of it. I always believe that there are only few projects which get to the eyes of the general public enough to get funded, LibreOffice is one of the very few. People trust Libreoffice with donations and money to fight against Microsoft and show a path of freedom. For the document foundation to betray the people who programmed the code in the first place, is also, a betrayal of the people who have funded libreoffice for years, who would love to demand more answers and I hope that in the article, that you can talk _effectively_ to them. It's really sad to see all of this happen and I wish if something happens as I don't wish for people to lose hope in open source foundations with cases like these. |
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| ▲ | jonas21 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > people may feel sorry for you but they won't know why. Or worse, they'll just think you're a jerk and not feel sorry for you. |
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| ▲ | Seattle3503 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Agreed, I found this article hard to follow and emotive in a way that made it feel extremely biased. |
