It would be better to call it "LibreOffice Unsupported" and "LibreOffice Paid 
Support" instead of using the terms "LibreOffice Enterprise" and "LibreOffice 
Personal".

You're arguing that using the term "community" creates confusion because of 
other open source projects providing the same tagging. But some of those 
projects also use "Enterprise" to describe their paid versions, and those 
versions have different features than their community editions. So I don't get 
the argument that allowing for the "Enterprise" tag is OK, but a "Community" 
tag is not.

I've read and understand the context of the marketing plan, as well as 
Michael's article on business models. I understand the intent; but there is 
uncertainty about LibreOffice as a sustainable project as is being alluded to 
by Michael and other ecosystem partners and this is being used as a veiled 
threat to introduce changes that haven't received proper community 
consultation. A statement by TDF saying there is no plan to do these things, 
while continuing to discuss moving to an edition system, is the left hand 
washing the car while the right hand throws dirt --- or some better idiom than 
this.

To point to links and mailing lists that anyone under the age of 40 probably 
does not use regularly is not a good way to engage with your community. Several 
suggestions have been made and it seems like certain people are resistant to 
them without giving legitimate reasons beyond "this is always how we've done 
it, you should have checked instead. It's your fault for not flooding your 
email inbox with chatter." (There are 40 upvotes and 0 downvotes on this 
comment:  
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/07/07/libreoffice_community_protests_at_introduction/#c_4067368
 ) Obviously how it's been done before is not working because people are upset 
and concerned about the project. So I'd encourage some self-reflection in 
resisting calls to use modern software infrastructure for the project to 
communicate better with stakeholders/donors beyond those who have the privilege 
to be paid to work on the project.

Cheers,
Kevin

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