Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Re:Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by dralley on Saturday June 03, 2023 @09:21AM (#36176464)

The former has tons of plausible alternatives which are already more frequently used than LibreOffice - and of course you can still use LibreOffice via Flatpak anyways.

The latter is a hard requirement to doing serious media editing work on Linux regardless of what software you want to use. And unlike the former, there's a dedicated customer base that wants it.

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Re:Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by supportlocal4h on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:26AM (#36176961)

There were plenty of plausible alternatives before Sun bought StarOffice and made it Free software. There were plenty of plausible alternatives when the Libre folks "freed" LibreOffice from Oracle.

LibreOffice is still the standard-bearer for open source office suites. It isn't competing with WordPerfect or AmiPro or Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro Pro like it used to. The proprietary stuff have largely died and lost to the two big gorillas.

It is as important as ever to have the likes of LibreOffice around. There are plenty of plausible alternatives to Redhat itself, but surely everyone understands how important they and their like have been and continue to be.

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Re:Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice by dralley on Saturday June 03, 2023 @02:43PM (#36179350)

Nobody is getting rid of LibreOffice, it's only a question of whether it is supported directly by Red Hat as part of the base install and repos.

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