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Re:Keep Android Open by Arainach on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:33PM (#45750258)
>but it has enough market share that it can't be completely ignored.

This is the Hacker News bubble in action. Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it. They ignore it and they thrive. Maybe you need to pay attention if you're dealing with certain European governments these days - I'm not sure because I completely ignore it and haven't paid attention since there was just OpenOffice and LibreOffice didn't even exist yet.

Re:Keep Android Open by NewJazz on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:10PM (#45750787)
Source on most of China/India not having heard of libreoffice?
Re:Keep Android Open by tredre3 on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:28PM (#45751037)
Kingsoft recently announced that WPS Office has 620M MAU users, the bulk of which is in China. Microsoft has even more Office users in China

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival...

So if China has heard of LibreOffice, they clearly didn't like what they've heard...

Re:Keep Android Open by spookie on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:02PM (#45752280)
It's the product of a government owned company... in China. What do you expect?

Moreover, what you write is monitored, and you may loose documents based on what you write [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unle...

Re:Keep Android Open by autoexec on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:07AM (#45759624)
> Moreover, what you write is monitored

So just like MS Word then

Re:Keep Android Open by NewJazz on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:47PM (#45755897)
So, because competitors have traction nobody has heard of libre office? That's not a logical statement.
Re:Keep Android Open by Arainach on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:29AM (#45757632)
You can't prove a negative. Usage numbers tell the real story. Either people haven't heard of it, or, worse for proponents, they have heard of it and have decided it's not good enough.
Re:Keep Android Open by opan on Thursday October 30, 2025 @04:53AM (#45757759)
I fixed a computer for some old people once who weren't the least bit technical, but they had LibreOffice installed. My guess is they found it searching "microsoft word free" or similar. A bit like how some kids end up finding Minetest/Luanti by searching "free Minecraft".
Re:Keep Android Open by graemep on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:36AM (#45759326)
> Maybe you need to pay attention if you're dealing with certain European governments these day

Open document formats have been the UK standard for things like .gov.uk for many years. About a decade IIRC. Ignored by some people (notably the Office of National Statistics, of whatever its called these days).

> Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it.

I have come across quite a few non-tech people who use Libre Office.

It has great (some people say better than MS Word with itself between version) compatibility with MS office formats.