download: 'buying' vs 'free download'

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I would rather download directly from www.libreoffice.org and give them a donation of $5 (well used) than "buying" $8 from any commercial company which might have put a trojan inside for commercial purpose and baiting you with "many extras features" which you will find for free as well on the internet and the official website (www.libreoffice.org), if "feature" means really something in that particular case.

On the libreoffice.org website you have many extensions https://extensions.libreoffice.org/ex... (features) as well as many templates https://extensions.libreoffice.org/te...

if you want to feel secured by "buying" give it to libreoffice, it's them who develop LO and your money will be used to improve it even more.

Aslo

Donations to The Document Foundation are tax-deductible in several countries. https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

And if you want a DVD version of libreoffice https://no.libreoffice.org/download/p...

From what I can see you would be paying for the convenience of having the software on a CD. You also get "some fonts and coupons" which are probably not worth much.

For me not worth it. I can burn my own CD for "convenience" ,,,

Agree with it being about trust. I have had zero problems with downloaded LibreOffice.

It is mostly about trust.

Do you trust The Document Foundation to deliver software which works for your purposes and will not harm the functionality and integrity of your computer? I guess you do, or else you would not be asking the question in the first place.

Do you trust that Amazon entity to the same? Technically, they may have added programming (added functionality/reliability, security "hardening", but also potentially intrusive "trojans".) as well as additional material (templates, wizards), storage media to install from, and infrastructure (cloud storage, user support) to add value. Most likely they haven't. (Added value, that is.)

The claims to "free user support" usually means this site and forum.openoffice.org .

Do you trust that the added value (if any) is worth whatever payment they are asking?