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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.