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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

I honestly can't see how you came to this conclusion, at least not based on this article.

They literally have only half a sentence about appreciating donations in the lead-in and the rest of the article is about the "libre" part of FLOSS, e.g. that it is free as in freedom and not only as in free beer.

While in our little FLOSS bubble here that seems like the same old rhetoric, there are genuinely still a lot of people out there who think of OpenOffice (usually they are not even aware of LibreOffice) as the same as some freeware offers such as WPS-Office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

You're right, I thought this was the other Document Foundation article referenced on this post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054160

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

Interesting discussion. This one struck a chord

There is a long history of open source projects going to Apache being like sending an old racehorse 'to the farm'.