Building a strong brand ...

Posted Feb 27, 2026 11:33 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Building a strong brand ... by mmeeks
Parent article: Restarting LibreOffice Online

> giving top billing to competing companies who contribute next-to-nothing,

Why would they do that? Baffling... unless there's some other consideration somewhere for someone/something?

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Building a strong brand ...

Posted Feb 27, 2026 11:50 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Sounds like they're falling into the same pit Apache Open Office fell into.

I guess they haven't learnt the first rule of "how to earn credit", namely the more eagerly you give credit where it's due, the more of that credit flows back to you! Much as I don't like be singled out, it is nice, and as the "grizzled greybeard" at work, I do my best to encourage the youngsters. Both publicly and in private.

DON'T try and claim credit that's not yours. People see through it ...

Cheers,
Wol

Building a strong brand ...

Posted Feb 27, 2026 12:26 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Part of the problem is that a chunk of the people who stand for election etc at TDF are working for companies that compete with Collabora, but who contribute by providing time to spend on TDF committees etc, rather than working on LibreOffice itself. Those people then push for their companies to have top billing in TDF press releases about LibreOffice.