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Ehh, it's always been fine. But who is going to pay for it, when it basically works and it's free? People who have the money to pay for an office suite will jus
by core-questions 6y ago
Ehh, it's always been fine. But who is going to pay for it, when it basically works and it's free? People who have the money to pay for an office suite will just buy Microsoft.
There's a reason why this product has been bouncing around for 20+ years from StarOffice to OpenOffice to Libreoffice, owned by Sun and Novell and SCO or whatever, who can even remember? It's not going to be a money maker, because there's never, ever going to be any reason to buy it.
Even if they port it to the browser and market a cloud/onprem-capable competitor to Office 365, people still won't buy it.
The ideal candidates for using it are institutions like schools that are cash strapped, but then how will they train their students to use MS Office, how will they deal with all their macro-infested Excel sheets and Access DBs? No good answer.