Cosmic Cleric

No company that size could change its entire office suite without essentially stopping all office work for a few months.

I’ve seen it done before.

Usually how it’s done is that you install LibreOffice in parallel to Microsoft Office, and then you transition people over, over time.

Not that hard to do.

That’s not the point though. They’re talking about usage population.

A virtual ‘Public Square’, where everyone is discussing ideas that you can listen in on and contribute to, doesn’t work very well if there’s no one in the public square.

Meanwhile I work for a HUGE fortune 500 company that uses libreoffice on work laptops.

So weird that there’s so many down votes for this comment.

You want software engineers to suddenly spontaneously create a socialist society so they don’t need to be paid to survive?

HOW they make their money is what’s being discussed, not IF they should be making money.

In the past companies have made a lot of money without having to sell your private information to do so.

Utterly tired of the mob of goofs that think everything should be developed for free

Nice strawman. You are not being intellectually honest. No one is arguing that (italicized part).

But how the money is made, how much of your privacy do you have to give up (remember when you used to be able to buy products and not have to give up any of your privacy?) for corporations to have profits, is what’s being discussed.