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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by himujjal on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:02AM (#26055073)
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive.

One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf?

Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are mostly non-programmers.

I know PDF is by adobe and Docx is by microsoft.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by EwanToo on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:02AM (#26055457)
I think the single biggest thing that OpenOffice achieved was the ODT file format.

Showing that an open file format could do everything was a big part of forcing Microsoft to switch from .doc to .docx, which is much more open

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by codegladiator on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:27AM (#26055224)
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by moron4hire on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:55AM (#26055407)
That's not about docx.
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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by 2Gkashmiri on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:43AM (#26055734)
i am at -2 votes right now... did i say something bad? i'm still trying to understand what makes HN crowd mad
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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by MikusR on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:04PM (#26056299)
It's not the HN crowd. It's more likely people from those commercial LibreOffice vendors and they sock-puppets.
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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by jshevek on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:04AM (#26055871)
This can be hard to predict, but the following is sometimes helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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