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Comment by skinfaxi

6 hours ago

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>How much money have you contributed back to this seemingly indispensable project?

Perhaps it's time for you to become familiar with the terms of the Mozilla Public License, under which Libre Office is released. There is no requirement for monetary compensation.

  • No requirement doesn't mean "don't be a mensch"

    • Yeah but like, we don't know if OP is making any money off this, let alone significant money. Let's not instantly hold them to the same "please contribute or you're dragging things down" standard as a zillion dollar corporation.

    • You believe you know better than the authors themselves about how they ought to be treated?

      They chose -- explicitly, voluntarily, knowingly -- to give the thing away for free. That's their right for their own creation. Your preferences don't supersede theirs.

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    • I don't know what a mensch is but if they wanted to be compensated for their software they should not have released it as Free Software.