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> oh no, no, no, we’re not locking this page for censorship and manipulation reasons! We’re locking this page for “integrity“.
Thing is, in this case the can be doing exactly the right and wrong thing for the same reasons. There doesn’t seem to be a win here except to not be a publisher of reviews that will (intentionally) upset unpaying and please your paying customers.
Where people would generally conduct themselves in a cordial manner. We would not engage in doxxing, brigading, posting negative reviews of goods or services we have not used, impotently try to manipulate search engines and we would not incite others to do so.
What was so good about the old internet that we don't have anymore? I'm curious, as I've been online since 1994/1995. I can't imagine going back to it.
I have used Internet since 1989. Of course not at home, because that didn't exist.
In the early days every Internet user was implicitly trust-worthy. They all worked at universities or the like and meeting a scammer was highly unlikely, basically unheard of. I have visited several of them on another continent, just introduced by email. We helped each other buying goods that you could not buy in your country of residence before Amazon existed. We exchanged collectibles like paper money. It just worked, the check was in the mail a week or 2 later.
The first thing we had to learn is that aol.com addresses could not be trusted. That was still kind of easy, but since then it's only been downhill.
Well I was on BBSes before that, and I've hung out with random people IRL via message boards who turned out to be very nice. But - I've also seen some of that, more recently on discord, and on IRC a few years back. I think that that aspect (trust) is an emergent phenomenon from interacting with a smaller group.
> For enterprise-class deployments, TDF has strongly recommended the LibreOffice Enterprise family of applications from ecosystem partners – for desktop, mobile and cloud – with long-term support options, professional assistance, custom features and other benefits, including SLA (Service Level Agreements).
My company doesn't need this. We just need a program do open documents and spreadsheets. We don't need an ecosystem, we don't need their cloud, we don't need mobile suppoet, custom features, "professional assistance" or SLAs.
> Despite this recommendation, an increasing number of enterprises have chosen the version supported by volunteers over the version optimized for their needs.
Let that sink in for a second. Basically TDF is saying "we know what's best for you - it's paying us for things you don't need".
It's completely tone-deaf and I'm seriously considering creating a fork called FuckTDF-Suite with everything being identical except removing all mentions of "Community", "Enterprise", and donation prompts.
First Elastic, now this. If you're just salty about not getting money and don't care about the principles of free software, go sell your soul and work for M$FT or Goolag.
It might be tone deaf they way they did it but it is a real problem.
I've nothing against small groups doing a bit of guerrilla marketing, like one that showed up in a post share earlier this weekend along the lines of: "this program is shared under thr MIT and the GPL license but with the social expectation <something something>".
If we want to release out main product as open source we cannot expect to become wildly profitable, but at the same time we as developers should get better at advocating for such projects with our managers and our customers.
I often do that when there is something the company I work for need and depend on: I look for support contracts etc. Usually this works great, once devs ignored me and changed the rules after we signed up (handsontable I think), which is of course annoying.
If your company is not clogging up their community support forums then you are not the intended audience for this.
The project provides an open source MS Office replacement for free, not an IT department.
Their community support forums are for home users, not the accounts department stuck trying to balance the end of year spreadsheet. Pay for their "enterprise" support if it is business critical, or buy MS Office and see how much end user support you get with that.
>By using this, G--gle will hound you with impossible capchas and privacy-forward search engines will think that you're a bot
A friend of mine had an alternative theory: by making it very very hard to track you, you have shown to be somewhat intelligent and you have shown that you know more about computers than the average Joe. Goolag, knowing you're a somewhat intelligent human, gives you the very hard captchas it needs to train.
If Google has a way to verify correctness of an answer, which they seemingly would have to - then would it matter? Smart person or smart bot - if they are given a tough question and answer correctly Google gains confidence in the answer _(or however it works haha)_.
Because really i don't think Google cares at all about bots. They just want data. And the captcha system is an impressive system to pull training data out of intelligent beings/code.
The privilege you get from owning a project is that you don't have to do shit for anyone if you don't want to.
If you don't like the feature someone wants or don't want to work on a bug report, don't.
The French repair score system mentioned by OP gave the latest Macbook 16" a repair-ability score of 7/10. This unfortunately makes the French approach pretty much useless.
