Payment workaround?
I have been donating annually in the mistaken belief the funds went to devs. Disappointed.
Maybe TDF can 'pay' individual/smaller devs through a hardship fund type payments?
I have been using since 2004 and has enough features for what I want. Unfortunately, many of my customers are locked into financial apps that can only export via MS Office/Excel. I have contacted a few of the financial app companies in the past and asked if would consider developing export via LibreOffice. Told no demand. Usual chicken/egg scenario I'm afraid.
Similarly disappointed OSS based Google never supported ODF in Docs and only natively support OOXML. Had Google gone with ODF, that might have promoted LibreOffice uptake.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
