While this feels like just a delta in the scheme of things it sounds like it is a delta with the "wrong" sign. For ages now it is clear that the Linux desktop

While this feels like just a delta in the scheme of things it sounds like it is a delta with the "wrong" sign. For ages now it is clear that the Linux desktop community has lost the plot of how to move forward in the era of "cloud" and "AI" even while its value proposition, intrinsic advantages and cumulated achievement are immense. There is fragmentation, duplication, silos, and lack of interoperability among the vast array of available open source desktop apps. And now there is AI knocking on the door. Of all the desktop apps Libreoffice is maybe the one that is exactly in the eye of the AI storm. Its pretty obvious that cloud "productivity" suites will be increasingly integrating these algorithms and new functionalities will completely subsume and/or obsolesce old paradigms. Libreoffice having access to local and sensitive data and a huge range of open source data science / ML libraries should have been at the forefront of integrating open source AI. Not only gaining a new lease of life for the next decade but enticing maybe many millions more users into FOSS platforms.