Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 3, 2023 14:42 UTC (Sat) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733)
Parent article: Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

I suspect that:

1) most document generation is business related;
2) most documents are produced and consumed collaboratively (even if there is a single author, there are multiple reviewers or consumers);
3) passing document revisions via email attachments has proven itself to be an anti-pattern

At my $day_job documents general fall into two categories: "serious" and "casual". Spreadsheets are usually small estimations as the data sets worked with are vastly too large to work with in that format. Most "serious" docs are in latex (excluding spreadsheets) and kept in a git repo. "Casual" docs/presentations/spreadsheets are in Google docs. Not only is there not a need for a single desktop world instance of a word processor, using one would disrupt collaborative editing.

Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice

Posted Jun 3, 2023 16:39 UTC (Sat) by acolin (guest, #61859) [Link]

> Not only is there not a need for a single desktop world instance of a word processor, using one would disrupt collaborative editing.

Unless it is Microsoft Word. Collaborative editing outside the browser. People who still use Google Docs are most likely victims of inertia since Google Docs came first; but since that time Microsoft had at last obsoleted them.