OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta Release Available

Posted Aug 12, 2010 0:54 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (guest, #56877) [Link]

It's not my job to support your obsession with Freedom.

Nice tainting word "obsession" aside, I never claimed it was. I said if you want to use OpenOffice and need a feature, you should help make it come about. Clearly, you're wedded to the consumer model. That's your right, but you shouldn't be surprised if people don't do what you want if you aren't willing to pitch in. That was my message.

If you want me (and others) to use your software, you need to make the value proposition worth it.

I'm not an OpenOffice developer, so OOo isn't my software. That aside, you're reiterating that you're a consumer. Right. I got that already.

Your Free/Open code is hence not something I need.

Bully for you. I assume you also take your car to the dealer for all maintenance.

The remaining advantage of open code is the freedom to trade it for no cost...

No, not really. You don't have to be a coder to gain from having your Four Freedoms respected. Of course, you don't have to care about your Four Freedoms. It's your life, not mine.

But sometimes, $300 a copy is just a better value.

Indeed it sometimes is. and sometimes it's not. and sometimes it's not solely money that's important in life.

The only Freedom that regular users care about is freedom of their data, not software.

Perhaps you, not all. and a majority of americans voted for Bush. I.e. popularity does not imply correctness or beneficiality.

If anything, I feel more threatened by the FSF's attempts at locking me in to software that doesn't do what I need and then trying to convince me it's my fault.

Erm, "lock in" implies compelling. Nobody's compelling anyone to choose FOSS, let alone the FSF which heretofore has been entirely uninvolved in this discussion. Perhaps you're bringing your own baggage to the discussion? I was bringing up the fact that reality works a certain way, and one's goals can conflict with one's actions. That's it.