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I don't get the hate against OpenOffice. Sure, LibreOffice is clearly superior right now, but does it really hurt to have a second option, bad as it may be? The

I don't get the hate against OpenOffice. Sure, LibreOffice is clearly superior right now, but does it really hurt to have a second option, bad as it may be? There's no reason the two of them can't co-exist. Also, the current office market is all about momentum and basically nothing about feature set anyway, so it's not like a bit more dev time is sufficient to get LibreOffice anywhere near the Microsoft monopoly.

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
It's been repeated ad nauseam in every discussion about OO: it draws attention away from an alternative that is man-decades ahead in terms of features, compatibility with non-free formats, etc., all the while containing numerous unpatched CVEs that have been known for years. I still see people using OpenOffice because that's what they know, and I have to waste time explaining that it should be dropped and forgotten about. This could easily have been avoided.
- bitL 4y ago
  Many features in LibreOffice suffered a major regression - see e.g. math equation editor that is just unusable as the discoverability of math operators and symbols was thrown out of the window. The most annoying problem of OO being very slow in comparison to MS Office stayed with LibreOffice as well.
- raverbashing 4y ago
  Yeah, but the information percolates, eventually And I mean, the biggest competitor of MS Office is now Google Docs.
marcodiego 4y ago
The problem is that the trade mark OpenOffice became relatively popular for some time. So, a lot of people still download and use it without knowing about LibreOffice which is superior in AFAIK every possible way. AOO just steal users from LO without bringing any benefit. You don't se the same hate against OnlyOffice, for example.
- bee_rider 4y ago
  OpenOffice is just such a much more obvious name. LibreOffice might as well be named "OpenOffice, err, well technically LibreOffice but it is basically just an updated version"

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago

It's been repeated ad nauseam in every discussion about OO: it draws attention away from an alternative that is man-decades ahead in terms of features, compatibility with non-free formats, etc., all the while containing numerous unpatched CVEs that have been known for years. I still see people using OpenOffice because that's what they know, and I have to waste time explaining that it should be dropped and forgotten about. This could easily have been avoided.

bitL 4y ago
Many features in LibreOffice suffered a major regression - see e.g. math equation editor that is just unusable as the discoverability of math operators and symbols was thrown out of the window. The most annoying problem of OO being very slow in comparison to MS Office stayed with LibreOffice as well.
raverbashing 4y ago
Yeah, but the information percolates, eventually And I mean, the biggest competitor of MS Office is now Google Docs.

marcodiego 4y ago

The problem is that the trade mark OpenOffice became relatively popular for some time. So, a lot of people still download and use it without knowing about LibreOffice which is superior in AFAIK every possible way. AOO just steal users from LO without bringing any benefit. You don't se the same hate against OnlyOffice, for example.

bee_rider 4y ago
OpenOffice is just such a much more obvious name. LibreOffice might as well be named "OpenOffice, err, well technically LibreOffice but it is basically just an updated version"