Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?
Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?
Posted Aug 18, 2015 13:16 UTC (Tue) by davidgerard (guest, #100304)In reply to: Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much? by louie
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team
To be fair, this is quite a lot of why LibreOfficeKit - the Android project, for example, is an exercise in putting a completely new interface on LO.
So if there's someone who wants ribbons that much, it's now in the realms of the feasible, if not easy :-)
I'd say the main competition point with Google Docs is (a) live collaborative editing (this is IME a killer app for Google Docs, it's one we use at work a whole lot) (b) convenience (it's always RIGHT THERE in your browser). LO Online has potential for this, and unlike GDocs it'll be able to convert a random OOXML document with any fidelity whatsoever. (Seriously, GDocs is utterly incompetent at docx, but you never see people complain about this.)