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In tech, all things old are new again every 10 years or so. You can't ever say "that ship has sailed."
by JustSomeNobody 11y ago
In tech, all things old are new again every 10 years or so. You can't ever say "that ship has sailed."
- ucaetano 11y agoSure you can, concepts survive, but the companies that implemented them in a certain way don't. Things will move to the server and back probably an endless number of times in the future, and each time, a large score of companies will become irrelevant and die off. Take pagers, the concept (delivering messages) still exists, but the mass market for dedicated, dumb message receivers disappeared a long time ago, leaving only a few niches. Any company doing a mass-market, native-only, offline-only office productivity suite is bound to fade into oblivion, unless it changes. And that's the point of my original post, LibreOffice is going exactly through that.