[thibaultamartin]

> Why is it so bad that Microsoft charges for their product? I use Office in my professional life and Libre+Office in my personal life. I think if you make a decent product, it's perfectly okay to charge for it. Am I missing something ideological?

Well, it's not bad at all. The fees can be quite prohibitive for some companies, but that is just business.

I might trigger some flamewar here, but as a casual LibreOffice user, as an individual, I "bill" myself the price MS Office would cost me (70€ a year here in western Europe).

I find I'd rather pay for something that produces code which I consider to be "public interest", but I agree use cases can make one chose MS Office instead of LibreOffice.

[dorfsmay]

You bill yourself? Where do you send the money?

[robin_reala]

I think they mean they sent the equivalent cost of an Office licence to the Document Foundation.