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Source on most of China/India not having heard of libreoffice?

• tredre3 1y ago
  Kingsoft recently announced that WPS Office has 620M MAU users, the bulk of which is in China. Microsoft has even more Office users in China https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival-reaches-093000488.html?guccounter=1 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival... So if China has heard of LibreOffice, they clearly didn't like what they've heard...
  • spookie 1y ago
    It's the product of a government owned company... in China. What do you expect? Moreover, what you write is monitored, and you may loose documents based on what you write [1]. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unleashes-a-furor-over-privacy-11657887259 https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unle...
    • autoexec 1y ago
      > Moreover, what you write is monitored So just like MS Word then
  • NewJazz 1y ago
    So, because competitors have traction nobody has heard of libre office? That's not a logical statement.
    • Arainach 1y ago
      You can't prove a negative. Usage numbers tell the real story. Either people haven't heard of it, or, worse for proponents, they have heard of it and have decided it's not good enough.