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I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive. One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffi
by himujjal 6y ago
I got off LibreOffice myself to OnlyOffice. Docx support wasnt that impressive.
One thing I wanted to ask to you since you seem very experienced with LibreOffice is how much effort and money is spent on ODT and other formats. Why not simply use and improve docx like we do with pdf?
Second, Is Libreoffice's goal is to be MS Office's OSS clone? If not why? MS Office is quite good and the potential office apps users are mostly non-programmers.
I know PDF is by adobe and Docx is by microsoft.
- codegladiator 6y agohttps://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-microsoft-office-file-formats-so-complicated-and-some-workarounds/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
- moron4hire 6y agoThat's not about docx.
- EwanToo 6y agoI think the single biggest thing that OpenOffice achieved was the ODT file format. Showing that an open file format could do everything was a big part of forcing Microsoft to switch from .doc to .docx, which is much more open
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoi am at -2 votes right now... did i say something bad? i'm still trying to understand what makes HN crowd mad
- jshevek 6y agoThis can be hard to predict, but the following is sometimes helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- MikusR 6y agoIt's not the HN crowd. It's more likely people from those commercial LibreOffice vendors and they sock-puppets.