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Speaking purely based on the name, not the actual software: What comes to mind when I hear the name LibreOffice is historically mediocre FOSS that you'd only c
by scarmig 4y ago
Speaking purely based on the name, not the actual software:
What comes to mind when I hear the name LibreOffice is historically mediocre FOSS that you'd only choose for ideological reasons, which is why the libre part needs to be advertised up front. When I imagine what it looks like, I'm imagining some creaky UI that looks like GIMP from 1999. It's worse, even, than OpenOffice, because OpenOffice is the obvious name if you're going for the ideological angle, which suggests that LibreOffice is a shitty knockoff of a shitty knockoff. Honestly even StarOffice is more appealing to my ears.
I'm positive that all of this is deeply unfair, but that's what comes to mind. Part of the negativity probably relates to conflating LibreOffice and OpenOffice in my head.
- prmoustache 4y agoNow when I will hear libreoffice again, what will come to mind are clueless illiterate gringos ridiculing themselves on hacker news.
- robonerd 4y ago> because OpenOffice is the obvious name if you're going for the ideological angle I disagree. I associate "Open" with corporate-interest driven "open source", BSD licensing, and cynically misleading branding (OpenDNS). 'Open' is the word you use if specifically don't want to invoke GNUy left-adjacent ideologies.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoOpen Server. But even with these damaging examples which I agree with you about, it's still better.
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- gattilorenz 4y ago> StarOffice is more appealing to my ears Now THAT's a name I haven't heard in a while. And it does sound vaguely attractive, certainly more than the two alternatives.
- pessimizer 4y agoMy embarrassing mistake is that I don't accidentally call Libreoffice Openoffice as often as I accidentally call it Staroffice.