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'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice is working on WebAssembly port
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- 2Gkashmiri 6y agoyeah, a foss software which starts its blog by bashing "freeloaders" >The Community label underlines the fact that the software is not targeted at enterprises, and not optimized for their support needs. So apparently any enterprise user is not guaranteed freedom 0. yeah right. good luck with that. I have started using calligra as a personal protest against this change by TDF and i hope calligra gets better https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoffice-7-1-community/ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoff...
- DoctorOW 6y agoI don't understand why "freeloaders" is in quotes when it doesn't appear in the linked post. Am I misunderstanding something?
- 2Gkashmiri 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26054160 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26055731&goto=item%3Fid%3D26054160%2326055731 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=26055731&goto=item%3Fi...
- smattiso 6y agoI think this is true. As Internet speeds get faster we will simply stream all of our heavyweight apps and games in H.265. * No piracy. * Easier access. If you are a software company selling desktop software this should have you salivating.
- nailer 6y agoYep. I didn't believe in cloud gaming until I realised my mouse has the same latency as the ISP in my new apartment (2ms). Being able to rent a GTX 2070 (and hopefully better in future) on GeForce Now is fantastic.
- pixelbash 6y agoThis is going to be interesting for apps obeying desktop ui settings. But running any software on any platform might make up for it.
- thu2111 6y agoIt increases your costs a lot. There can be benefits too of course but those costs have to be passed on to the users, so if there aren't any compelling reasons to run it all server side, it's unclear why people would want it. Consider also that the local os is an integration point too, for files, devices and other things.
- 0_gravitas 6y agoAnd if your someone that's so so sick and tired of SaaS hostage situations, this should leave you crestfallen and despaired.
- smattiso 6y agoYeah I am as well, but we are all sick of paying rent and yet we do. It is what it is and there's no way around it.
- astlouis44 6y agoExcited to see this same approach using WASM for games and all manner of heavy software. There's no reason every desktop app in the future can't become a full fledged, client side web-app with performance near native.
- throwawaybutwhy 6y agoThey've been shafting users left right and center with their clunky interface and tons of incompatibilities, evidently it's high time to up the ante and go off on a performance killing tangent.