Hi Andreas, On 25/07/2020 09:58, Andreas Mantke wrote: > > for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like > free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: > > https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/1286929532222570496/photo/1
This is actually an image from an older campaign, before we started to reduce usage of the word "free". The reason I reused the image there was because there was a flurry of tweets around Microsoft's subscription models, and people asking about alternatives. So I quickly dug out that image. In general, I have cut back on promoting the "free as in beer" messaging on social media. Still, it can be very useful for some targeted messaging, such as showing OpenOffice users that there's a much more up-to-date alternative. I tried doing this without any mention of "free", but kept getting the same response: "Yeah, but is LibreOffice free like OpenOffice"? And, of course, "office software available for use by anyone free of charge" is part of our statutes. But I agree that constantly emphasising the "free as in beer" part is counter-productive to the project as a whole. I spend more time now engaging in discussions to highlight that the software isn't made for free, and focusing on LO in terms of the community rather than just the end-result product. Mike -- 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
