See the screenshot below. This will have a negative impact on neutrality (those with deeper pockets are prioritised). LibreOffice Conference Sponsor Packages, published hours ago:
This event is to take place in Romania, where salaries are low; so if all you can afford to pay is 1,000 euros, you won't be mentioned in the press release. It's easier if you are German.
Summary: Conferences that advocate and present developments around Free software must prioritise top contributions, as measured in terms like effort (e.g. code) rather than money; for the third consecutive year LibreOffice (or TDF) gives a 'fast lane' reserved for corporations (deep pockets a prerequisite) and even turns its Twitter account into a marketing vessel
Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)Phoronix nowadays gets carried away; it made a new category to talk about slop and it decided to call it "intelligence" with some caricature of a brain (that's misleading)
HTTP/2 added a lot of complexity (it's just a Google protocol, based on SPDY originally), many image formats are proprietary and patented, HTML got 'replaced' by Java-Scripts [sic], and many URLs (the URL system was created in the early 90s) are just long strings for proprietary 'webapps'
"During the preceding year I had been trying to get CERN to release the intellectual property rights to the Web code under the General Public License (GPL) so that others could use it."
