Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 5:08 UTC (Mon) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)
In reply to: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by mattdm
Parent article: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

“… if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck …”

If it fires employees and products with abandon just to save money like IBM, …

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 14:15 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (3 responses)

No one was laid off from the Desktop team.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 14:20 UTC (Mon) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (2 responses)

https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2023-05-15-caolan.html ?

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 5, 2023 16:10 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry, you're wrong; besides the fact that no one with a "software engineer" title is being laid off, European labor laws do not allow laying off people as fast as in America or other countries.

Of course it's quite possible that these news are the result of ongoing discussions within Red Hat, causing him to look for a position at Collabora.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 8, 2023 14:54 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250) [Link]

Unfortunately that's only true in product development teams; there were quite a few people with 'software engineer' titles included in the April layoffs... just not in teams that were as noticeable.