LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, you are hurting devs

Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by lumost on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:30AM (#26056040)

out of curiosity, why do you use an open source office product when a variety of free & high quality web based document editors exist? I chafe when I need to use the microsoft office suite at this point, and premium editors look more like grammarly than word.

In the corporate/business use case there are both open source and cheap licensed/self-hosted versions of web based editors.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by toast0 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:57PM (#26056695)

I prefer a local spreadsheet over a browser spreadsheet, because the browser spreadsheets don't always update all the dependent cells consistently. Sometimes, they need to send something back and forth to a server and that's slow and irritating. Resizing columns seems better in a local app than in a browser too, but I'm not totally sure about that.

I don't really use a word processor or other parts of an office suite very often.

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Re:LibreOffice tells businesses: Get off Community version, ... by 2Gkashmiri on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:30PM (#26056460)

can you link open source web based editors? i have a need to use excel/spreadsheets

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