My personal experience as a lawyer with Linux

Posted Jan 14, 2011 22:53 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: My personal experience as a lawyer with Linux by morhippo
Parent article: Lawyers Can Leave Windows for Linux OS Ubuntu (SEOLawFirm.com)

> I have notified this bug before OpenOffice 1.0 was published, there has been some progress, but instead of fixing basic functionality completely that would allow seriously considering just replacing Microsoft Office with OpenOffice, we get GL based effects in OpenOffice Impress, Antialiasing and other things not really essential for getting serious work done by lawyers.

That is, sadly in some ways, a key feature of much FLOSS software - it is the developers and not the users who determine the roadmap, as those users are generally not paying the developers. Of course, in cases in which developers and users are the same people, or the developers hired directly by users this works well.