LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by ghaff on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:51AM (#23792775)

It's just a cutesy way of saying a long time ago when all the lawyers used Wordperfect. (A word processing program that I hated almost as much as Wordstar.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by tjalfi on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:29PM (#23797827)

They are still out there.

Last year we recruited an attorney from a firm that still uses WordPerfect for all their documents.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by int_19h on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:50PM (#23798730)

There are still law firms that require all their attorneys to use WordPerfect.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by Spooky23 on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:38PM (#23794099)

In some places, not so long ago :)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by ghaff on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:29PM (#23795364)

I imagine a lot of big law offices still have computers with WordPerfect on them so they can read old files if necessary.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by slavik81 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:52AM (#23799893)

WordPerfect is still maintained by Corel. The most recent release was in May.

They also maintain PaintShop Pro, WinDVD, and WinZip. I think they're running a retirement home for distinguished software products.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by Spooky23 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:01PM (#23804196)

Corel is the Microfocus of client software!

The thing is I get why people hang on to COBOL or Attachmate. The company licensing WinZip is the puzzler to me! :)

[ Parent | on HN ]