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Comment by tomrod

11 hours ago

Before Libre Office was Open Office.

I take comfort that we would not be without a local office suite for long.

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SV_BubbleTime  11 hours ago

I’d love for someone to be able to take it from “yeah it mostly works for me” to “oh fuck you Microsoft, I’m going to move our entire company over to this”.

I’m not going to hold my breath.

  • mattoxic  7 hours ago

    Boggles the mind that corporates stick to expensive, inefficient, insecure and in so many ways crap software. SQL Sever, Office, Oracle (any product), Windows servers and workstations - yet demand peak efficiency from staff.

  • redeeman  10 hours ago

    because thats not about quality, its about "i demand something thats 100% exactly the same as microsofts product, even in the places where its objectively crappier. I also wish it to track the microslop so that it consistently stays as shitty as microslop deems, so that I may never realize I use something else."

    • kube-system  8 hours ago

      This is the kind of attitude that stops OSS from becoming widely adopted. If simply shipping a quality office suite was enough, this problem would have been solved last millennium. (WordPerfect fuckin' slapped) And in fact, there are many quality office suites.

      Organizations choose Office because it:

      1. enables interoperability with other organizations

      2. has a commercial throat to choke

      3. has an existing pipeline of workers trained on it

      4. has a deep feature set for edge-case power-users

      5. integrates with other products and services that their customers want

      Every institutional office-migration project runs into these issues -- they're solvable, but damn if OSS advocates stopped pretending they didn't exist, they might actually fix them. LibreOffice/TDF is the closest anyone has gotten thus far in this regard.

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    • gus_massa  10 hours ago

      > "so that I may never realize I use something else"

      The main reasons are:

      1) ... so my muscle memory work. (In some editor Ctrl+Y is redo, in others no, I never remember in which editors, I hate when it doesn't work.)

      2) ... so I can exchange files with coworkers, and they will see exactly what I wrote (I recently received an email with a draft and I complained about a missing ≥. It actually was there was the visor in Gmail was not showing it.)