"aking this one step further, a big part of the friction that Zoom removed was that you don't need an account, an app or a social graph to use it: Zoom made network effects irrelevant. But, that means Zoom doesn't have those network effects either"

I wish I had known more about VC before I went to the Zoom.
Zoom website where , options are many but "Sign Up Free:" is a big focal point. Gotta register, down the rabbitt hole I went.

Clicking on an URL of a meeting, asks me to download app, in invisible print is mentions a browser will work. But I have discovered Zoom comes in a .deb file, I feel so grateful someone has thought of Linux and especialy Debian I dl and install.

Then all Zooms free, easy, we are all happy , ends, for me, with Zoom censoring users of its app. "purged the app, have this greasy feeling I have been compromised by free and easy.

Free as I libre, it beer

It ran on wine..not ported ...

greg

+1, another satisfied user..like the lack of noise..
greg

As long as some distro still packages it, I don't like/need change in my workstation either.

WindowMaker is similar, used it for years, seemed to go unsupported for a while, lo & behold, it is active now.

Document fidelity, aka backwards compatibility, should be the primary concern over new features.

Apache will be releasing AOO sometimes in the near future, the dev ver 3.4 preserves doc fidelity on my all archives, which is 9 years worth of use, LO 3.4.x does not, 3.5RC3 + is patched to allow viewing my archive, not as pretty as AOO or LO ver 3..3.x.

BTW Apache now holds the code to OO, not Oracle.....time to change the anti rhetoric, back to first comment.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542 & 42750

There was new feature added that completely changed how 'Table>borders>styles' is configured. A patch was made to fix backwards compatibility, sort of, but new border styles are not useful.

Not a fan of dev's run wild. I do not see the value in the metrics of the number of new code changes to software that works. New code new bugs, ad infinitum.

I switched to Apache OO 3.4-dev, it works fine, I don't feel I am missing any new' features...sometimes when something works...leave it alone.

A more significant historical link to the past, Corel Linux ,1999,was called Slink & a half. 9slink & Potato.'

Also Mint now has a release based on, 100% compatible with, Debian testing.

Just a bunch of noise though, love the new release, don't care what anyone else uses.