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aucisson_masque 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LibreOffice and the art of overreacting

If you see it that way, I think that you shouldn't be involved in any open source project and instead let others do it.

There are plenty of people that want to contribute in a open source project not because of the users but simply for their own need or because they believe in the project.

TZubiri 5 months ago [–]

There's certainly a category of software where contributing to is fun and motivating, like music software.

But there's a category of software that's not fun to build and that users need.

Excel clone falls into the latter.

It's easier to pay for that work than to pretend that the work itself is the payment.

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