Hi Mike, > "(...) I think it's fair to call it a successor project (...)" If you think so, I agree :) (y) After all it`s just a word, heritor, successor, or whatever. Everybody understands ... Sometimes I'm nitpicking. And "If you spent less time nitpicking, you'd get more work done.".
Cheers, Filipe Gomes Morgado *is using:* On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 10:41, Ravi Dwivedi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try submitting a bug report to Microsoft. They want you to pay like > > (US)$40 for the privilege. Contrast this with LO and other free software > > projects, where one can log into a bug tracker, submit the report, and > > hear back from the developers without even touching one's wallet or > > keying in a credit card number. > > > > Yes, someone has to pay for development but simply submitting a bug > > report shouldn't cost money on top of what one paid for the > > (proprietary) software, which in theory is being sold/licensed per > > "seat" primarily to cover the cost of support. > > > > In theory, yes, MS can plagiarize the bug tracker model LO uses. > > Honestly, given it's already quite tedious and odious to deal with bugs > > in MS software, I wish they would. > > I would say that the main issue is that you cannot fix the bug yourself > and that also means you cannot hire someone to fix it and it is not a > matter of how easy it is to submit a bug report. MS Office is a nonfree > software which users do not control. > > Let's think of ways on how to emphasize that. The day Microsoft makes it > easy to submit a bug report, it does not make it acceptable for me to > use MS Office. > > -- > Ravi Dwivedi > https://ravidwivedi.in/ > GPG Keys-> https://ravidwivedi.in/files/ravidwivedi.asc > Privacy Yathra Campaign https://privacyyathra.in > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
