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Actually for many years we have told people "if you want a free alternative to MS Office use OpenOffice". And we told this to people who are not closely followi

by hannob 10y ago

Actually for many years we have told people "if you want a free alternative to MS Office use OpenOffice". And we told this to people who are not closely following tech news. It's an established brand and it's not easy to undo. Many people will still google for openoffice. It would be helpful if they'd just get a message "OpenOffice is outdated, you can still download old versions, but you really want to get Libreoffice instead".

theallan 10y ago
One of my OSS bits of software has an XSLX data export options, so I've been interested in the OpenOffice / LibreOffice split because of a bug in OpenOffice causing the file I was outputting to be read as empty. I've changed the file format now, but even for a tech based audience I got a number of questions about OpenOffice. Just did a Google Trends on the topic [1] and it shows the two surprisingly close, confirming what you say, the openOffice brand still has momentum. 1: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=openoffice,libreoffice https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=openoffic...