Laptops sold in store. Vendor that targets schools elementary to college along with software and support to manage a fleet of computers. Would be relevant for corporations too. They would market and support Linux hardware
User friendly way to deal with permissions on flatpaks. Needs to be like Android and iOS where when it’s needed, you get a prompt box to affirm/deny or file/application picker to grant access to
Grow commercial support orgs for professional software support. Like orgs that support deployments of LibreOffice. Blender foundation is good. More of that for other open source pro/prosumer software. Sales and support staff separate from developers
I think you make a good point regarding support. This is, for businesses, the crucial issue. They want to buy reliance, support and certainty. This is what commerce, like Microsoft, offers; peace of mind for (big) bucks.
Organizations can’t easily take measures to assure proper support for a lot of open source software. They’d have to hire and probably educate a lot of expertise, which all has to be managed too.
It’s just a whole lot easier for decision makers to spent extra money to have a contractor solve any issues, or at be able to blame (sue) them.
I think LibreOffice should just be a PWA. I could easily be missing something, since I’m not an office suite power user, but AFAICT, everyone would be better off using an OSS version of Google Docs. Web apps are the most accessible option, they fit the collaborative use case well, etc.
LO already has enough issues wth enabling the Java stuff in the menus, the last thing we need is for it to become a laravel react svelte kitten gemini poob framework-of-the-week POS.
Sorry I wasn’t very clear. I didn’t mean to suggest that Libreoffice per se should pivot to a web app (unless they want to rewrite a lot of stuff or figure out how to generate WASM). But I think I would rather use an office suite in general if it were a web app.
And it doesn’t need to use a JS framework, it could be written in any language that targets WASM.
Laptops sold in store. Vendor that targets schools elementary to college along with software and support to manage a fleet of computers. Would be relevant for corporations too. They would market and support Linux hardware
User friendly way to deal with permissions on flatpaks. Needs to be like Android and iOS where when it’s needed, you get a prompt box to affirm/deny or file/application picker to grant access to
Grow commercial support orgs for professional software support. Like orgs that support deployments of LibreOffice. Blender foundation is good. More of that for other open source pro/prosumer software. Sales and support staff separate from developers
I think you make a good point regarding support. This is, for businesses, the crucial issue. They want to buy reliance, support and certainty. This is what commerce, like Microsoft, offers; peace of mind for (big) bucks.
Organizations can’t easily take measures to assure proper support for a lot of open source software. They’d have to hire and probably educate a lot of expertise, which all has to be managed too.
It’s just a whole lot easier for decision makers to spent extra money to have a contractor solve any issues, or at be able to blame (sue) them.
I think LibreOffice should just be a PWA. I could easily be missing something, since I’m not an office suite power user, but AFAICT, everyone would be better off using an OSS version of Google Docs. Web apps are the most accessible option, they fit the collaborative use case well, etc.
LO already has enough issues wth enabling the Java stuff in the menus, the last thing we need is for it to become a laravel react svelte kitten gemini poob framework-of-the-week POS.
Sorry I wasn’t very clear. I didn’t mean to suggest that Libreoffice per se should pivot to a web app (unless they want to rewrite a lot of stuff or figure out how to generate WASM). But I think I would rather use an office suite in general if it were a web app.
And it doesn’t need to use a JS framework, it could be written in any language that targets WASM.
That makes sense.
You had given me nightmares for a moment. :p