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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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post #11

Hopefully LibreOffice is one of the projects that gets free Pro Max accounts from A and O. Corporations have been trying Star/Open/LibreOffice migrations for literally 30 years at this point. And, at the pace it’s been going, it will probably take another 30 for it to reach Word 95 polish.

Tell me you haven't used LibreOffice without telling me you haven't used LibreOffice.

It's actually a pretty great software suite.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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post #12
post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)

First!

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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post #2

It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure

It's open source software - it can be baked into pretty much anything given they follow the license terms.

The question is whether the 10 million active users of Codex / ChatGPT Work count towards the download count.

That would contradict the cause implied in the title here.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it can get nearly all the same tasks done as long as you are not tied deep into a corporate environment passing Excel-specific files around. I have also made great business uses of it in Docker too, generating perfect PDFS from templates, and normalizing document formats for analysis. I donate a modest $19/month personally to the foundation, much rather pay them than Microsoft!
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