Seriously, Andreas, can you give us a break from the constant negativity? Michael changed the subject line so as not to hijack the thread and posted a very welcome and on-topic message with thanks, as well as signalling the end of a topic. His message was positive, inclusive of his critics and in no way deserves your continued defamatory insinuations. Please withdraw.
Sincerely, Simon On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 4:53 PM Andreas Mantke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > always the same not appropriate behavior: capture a thread with a new > subject. > > Am 10.06.22 um 11:51 schrieb Michael Meeks: > > Hi there, > > > > Paolo Vecchi wrote on 31.05.22 at 21:03: > >> TDF to publish LibreOffice in the app stores, especially Apple and > >> Microsoft. TDF will work to prepare LibreOffice for the app stores > >> as soon as possible > > > > As this era ends, I'd like to say how pleased we are at > > Collabora to have been able to lead here - to have fronted the > > significant initial investment needed to get LibreOffice into the Mac > > sandbox, and app-store and to have got it done. > > > > We made it easier for a large number of users to get > > LibreOffice. Later on we charged for the convenience and re-invested > > that into improving the Mac version up-stream, and also are pleased to > > this means that Collabora used money from the app store: > > a) to decide itself how and where to improve the source code for the Mac > version (independent from TDF [board / community]) > > b) to grow its staff and portray itself as the biggest service provider > for the office suite. > > The whole email looks like a laudatory for lifework, but this is only > framing. It should soften the real message and the frustration. > > > (...) > > > > If the TDF board want to have a bigger packaging team, so be > > it. Hopefully it will not negatively impact those who previously did > > the work. > > > > I am somewhat curious as to the budget impact here, and the > > real scope of "app-store". In particularly how much time is this > > expected to take away from areas such as CTL/RTL, CJK as well as other > > things that we are hoping to address with targeted developers ? > It looks like that there is no expectation that TDF in-house developers > and staff will be able to work on source code beyond app-store needs. > And the real message is: bad board decision, let the situation as it is > now. > > And in the end it is a hidden complain about the removal of a source of > income for companies. > > But the whole process with the app-store management was based on trust > between TDF and the companies. And since the process about LOOL and the > fork this trust was broken. > > It should be obvious now that such decisions could lead to 'unexpected' > (for the doer) consequences in other areas. > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- > ## Free Software Advocate > ## Plone add-on developer > ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog > -- *Simon Phipps* *TDF Trustee*
