LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
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#2It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became [nearly nonexistent] irrelevant.
It reminds me of all those hundreds of early 20th century battleships that suddenly became completely irrelevant when the Dreadnought came by.
[Edit: replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer]
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#3From the demo I saw, it worked as well as watching 1080p YouTube in a third world country. Someone figured it was smart to do server-side rendering and load your document as tiles using a technology designed for maps (the same as used in OpenStreetMap, and there it works well, because that's actually a map and not a document). The person argued WiFi was bad, but when typing on a 100mbps symmetric connection there was still a noticeable delay between my keystroke and it appearing on screen.
Edit: to everyone saying they also can't watch YouTube 1080p without lag/buffering/whatever: perhaps it's not perfect anywhere outside the third world, but I could imagine that there it would suck even more. It's just a comparison, not a research paper.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#4It would be cool if they made a client side version of this using Emscripten.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#5It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became [nearly nonexistent] irrelevant. It reminds me of all those hundreds of early 20th century battleships that suddenly became completely irrelevant when the Dreadnought came by. [Edit: replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer]
> It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became nearly nonexistent.
It works just fine for me and I'm not going anywhere for now so this little part of the 'market' will be around for a while.
The ability to own and administer your files is severely under-rated.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#6It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became [nearly nonexistent] irrelevant. It reminds me of all those hundreds of early 20th century battleships that suddenly became completely irrelevant when the Dreadnought came by. [Edit: replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer]
> It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became nearly nonexistent. It works just fine for me and I'm not going anywhere for now so this little part of the 'market' will be around for a while. The ability to own and administer your files is severely under-rated.
Oh yes, there will always be a very small niche market for almost any piece of technology. Open source projects never die, they just linger forever on the edges of oblivion.
> The ability to own and administer your files is severely under-rated.
Or severely over-rated depending who you ask :)
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became nearly nonexistent. It works just fine for me and I'm not going anywhere for now so this little part of the 'market' will be around for a while. The ability to own and administer your files is severely under-rated.
Oh yes, there will always be a very small niche market for almost any piece of technology. Open source projects never die, they just linger forever on the edges of oblivion. > The ability to own and administer your files is severely under-rated. Or severely over-rated depending who you ask :)
> Or severely over-rated depending who you ask :)
Give it some time.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#8It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became [nearly nonexistent] irrelevant. It reminds me of all those hundreds of early 20th century battleships that suddenly became completely irrelevant when the Dreadnought came by. [Edit: replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer]
>It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became nearly nonexistent.
If you mean that we've moved from desktop office apps to cloud-based Office apps that's absolutely not true.
The numbers I've seen for Google Docs etc are insignificant compared to office workers using MS Office and the rest. People who think Cloud docs have "won" apparently don't share the sames experiences with 99% of office workers in enterprise/businesses/governments etc.
In startup-land and small web businesses yes, cloud docs do well, but those are insignificant numbers-wise to the millions upon millions of classic office workers.
LibreOffice might be irrelevant, but that's because not many care for a free/open source office suite that's not MS Office, not because we've moved to Cloud documents.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#9It would be cool if they made a client side version of this using Emscripten.
Re: LibreOffice as a service offers alternative to Google Docs, Office 365
#10It's a bit sad to see LibreOffice struggling to maintain relevance when the market it tried to address suddenly became [nearly nonexistent] irrelevant. It reminds me of all those hundreds of early 20th century battleships that suddenly became completely irrelevant when the Dreadnought came by. [Edit: replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer]
>the market it tried to address suddenly became nearly nonexistent
Can you give something to back the claim?