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>The early adopters have problems > LibreOffice Initial release: 25 January 2011; 10 years ago don't think it's getting solved mated
by tubby12345 5y ago
>The early adopters have problems
> LibreOffice Initial release: 25 January 2011; 10 years ago
don't think it's getting solved mated
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoDifferent populations have different problems. When was the first time it was adopted by a major law firm? Example: The OP cares about "redlines" because lawyers use that all the time and most others don't.
- RNCTX 5y agoI worked for one of the online legal databases for several years. They had a Windows desktop app in addition to the website for accessing content. I managed to get the desktop app working in Linux after messing with Wine and permissions (it had some cache files written to a relative directory and what not) and after telling management about it they figured the potential market for such a thing would be small enough that they could just send any support requests about it directly to me for setup help, and likewise tell the sales reps to forward inquiries to me if Linux came up on a sale or demo install. In the decade I worked there I got exactly one call from a Linux admin at a law firm asking for the docs on using the desktop app.
- npongratz 5y agoIt gets even worse. LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice [0]: > OpenOffice.org Initial release May 2002; 19 years ago Which itself originated as StarOffice [1]: > StarOffice Initial release 1985; 36 years ago [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice