The developers of the open source office suite for Mac OS X, NeoOffice, have announced that, due to very low donation levels this year, they will be forced to make severe cutbacks to the services provided for users.

As they put it, “we must significantly reduce our costs to match the steep decline in donations from our users.”

For the first half of 2009, NeoOffice have been using donations saved from past years but now they have used up any surplus from prior years so, in order for them to make ends meet, users will see the following changes:

1. They will only answer support questions from large donors.
2. Users that donate little or nothing should expect very little support
3. Downloads may become restricted if they lose more mirrors

Since the economic crises that started in last fall, NeoOffice has seen the amount of donations dropped significantly each month while the number of downloads and new user support postings have not dropped. While they do not like having to cutback their donations are not covering the operating costs.

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Hard times for NeoOffice – News – The H Open Source: News and Features

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