DeepSeek integration

[erika]

Can you please integrate DeepSeek in to both FreeOffice and SoftMaker Office if possible?

https://chat.deepseek.com/

[Michael Uplawski]

Do with the Professional package whatever you want.

For FreeOffice, I think that Huawei-Cloud-HK would really really be too much free service in a gratuitous software. And why would you want to punish us this way ...

[erika]

DeepSeek is free. So you can integrate it in to FreeOffice easily and it will provide a lot of free value to the users until they switch to SoftMaker Office edition which has ChatGpt.

[Michael Uplawski]

DeepSeek is free. So you can integrate it in to FreeOffice easily and it will provide a lot of free value to the users until they switch to SoftMaker Office edition which has ChatGpt.

You do not understand me. Never mind.

[erika]

Remember this.

netscape built a browser, sold it like boxed retail software—you had to go to compusa & pay a solid chunk of change for it. the model worked for a while; their stock soared, everyone was thrilled.

then microsoft showed up & said, “actually, we’ll just give ours away for free.” & overnight, the entire business model imploded. the world collectively realized, “oh, this distribution method is dead,” & everything changed almost immediately.

this feels like that moment with Open Source DeepSeek.

[Michael Uplawski]

Deep Seek is a server software. Tell me where the servers are and will be. “Openness” is about sharing. A cloak and dagger attitude towards knowledge, scientific work and the benefit that YOU clandestinely tear from the work of others, has nothing to do with openness.

Do not mix it all to confuse us; we are not easily confused, anyway. Just let the topic rest.

this feels like that moment with Open Source DeepSeek.

Not at all. There is neither a moment, nor a feeling.

Edits: Lots of Kraut2English and Frog2English. Typos, too. I am proud of them all, because this post had been created without the assistance of an Artificial Idiot.

[lgsl]

I agree with you Michael. Even the argument about Netscape vs IE seems like it was done with AI. Those of us who lived the Browser wars know better than to fall for that over-simplified and out of context comparison.

[Michael Uplawski]

I agree with you Michael. Even the argument about Netscape vs IE seems like it was done with AI. Those of us who lived the Browser wars know better than to fall for that over-simplified and out of context comparison.

Okay, you got my argumentation right, but this only concerns AIrika's choice of wording in her/his/their/its attempt to arouse enthusiasm..., very Asian, however. I cannot write openly what I think all in all. And I will not be understood by so many people.China is corroding democracies worldwide, does no longer collaborate in scientific research but AIrika wants us to fill their Social-Ingeneering database with our parameters.

I do not say, that Elon Trump were any better and do not even trust the French systems (around the corner). But we appear to be in war. Sending ammunition to the foe had never been a good idea. I so wish to stop all this shit but my greatest relief these days is that I have lived enough and have no children.

Have fun.

[erika]

MICROSOFT: DEEPSEEK R1 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AZURE AI FOUNDRY AND GITHUB

[Michael Uplawski]

This tells a lot about the quality of the public. Nothing about the quality of any product or service.

“Nothing is more noble and requires more courage than to find oneself in open contradiction with our times, to stand up and to say: NO!”
(rough ad-hoc translation of Kurt Tucholsky)
I am not courageous, just desperate.

[Woody44]

FreeOffice provides a much higher percentage of the functionality of the paid version (SoftMaker Office) than many other programs/apps. Clearly, SoftMaker gives away FreeOffice in the hope that people who use FreeOffice will like it enough to be willing to then buy the commercial version. That's exactly how I came to SoftMaker Office.

For any company offering a free entry tier to their software, a decision must be made: How much functionality do we give away? I think SoftMaker strikes a good balance, for the most part. But we have to understand that FreeOffice is -- free. Users need to acept that by accepting the gift of a FREE package, they aren't going to get all the functionality of the commercial product. If SoftMaker were to integrate DeepSeek into FreeOffice, and if DeepSeek is any good -- users of FreeOffice would have less incentive to upgrade to SoftMalker Office.

[erika]

I tell anybody that to try FreeOffice first, and move to SoftMaker Office eventually on Linux.

Because pro users need SoftMaker Office to get official support from the vendor. That is a must.

But recently, Microsoft started to give Ad version of Word Excel PowerPoint with simple Copilot features for free. They now make money out of Ads inside Word Excel PowerPoint.

May be you can also think about that, another Ad version of FreeOffice with some more features such as DeepSeek integration but no support like SoftMaker Office. so you make more money from Ads inside FreeOffice yet you provide moderate features so you become more competitive.

- FreeOffice simple (what we have it today)
- FreeOffice with Ads with some moderate features such as DeepSeek integration
- Softmaker Ofice with Pro features like ChatGpt integration for Advanced users and Commercial customers


My 2 cents.

[Michael Uplawski]

Meandering around the pitfalls of reality will not give you an advantage in your campaign to boost your data-sucking machine.

There is one shiny cool feature about SoftMaker that you overlook. Keep it going.