Hi Paolo, dear BoD,
thank you for your email. I think your reply shows that the discussion on the marketing plan is very important, but that the current solution is premature, debatable and likely counter-productive. Given the need for this substantial discussion (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]) on the topic, I strongly encourage the BoD to postpone this after version 7.0 in order to give time for a good and productive discussion. I am sure that there are much better ways to differentiate the vanilla version and the ecosystem/certified developers’ version, taking into account the needs of ecosystem partners. Otherwise a discussion under time pressure (before 7.0 beginning of August) may cause harm to the community that really no one wants.
[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486
[2] https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ (of course, this mailing list)
[3] https://libreoffice-dev.blogspot.com/2020/07/will-libreoffice-70-be-only-personal.html
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1191779-the-document-foundation-clarifies-libreoffice-7-0-s-personal-edition-branding
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/07/libreoffice_community_protests_at_introduction/
[6] https://linuxnews.de/2020/07/libreoffice-personal-edition/#comments
[7] https://www.golem.de/news/document-foundation-libreoffice-soll-private-und-kommerzielle-nutzung-trennen-2007-149520.html#comments
Best,
Gerry