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IMO if LibreOffice really want to be in it for the money, they need to move away from trying to catch up to Office (not possible) and target some other niche wh
by quadrifoliate 6y ago
IMO if LibreOffice really want to be in it for the money, they need to move away from trying to catch up to Office (not possible) and target some other niche which actually differentiates themselves. The fact that Airtable and Notion are around and pretty successful means that people can and are spending money on document management solutions that are not Office.
A better API is one such point. Microsoft APIs always suck, and LibreOffice could be the thing that has a rich interface that allows you to build XLSX and DOCX files via an API. For a product that has been around for more than 20 years (if you count StarOffice), I expect the API story to be much better than https://api.libreoffice.org/examples/examples.html https://api.libreoffice.org/examples/examples.html