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Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro

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From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: Please do not donate to any Linux distro
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2025 06:37:51 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Others prefer software that does try to clone commercial offerings,
>> like LibreOffice, though.
> 
> Not sure what "commercial offerings" it is trying to clone,

M$ Office and all the commercial Office suites that were common
when OpenOffice.org, which was forked into LibreOffice, started.

The first paragraph on the Wikipedia page even states it:

"Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a free alternative
 to Microsoft Office, and released OpenOffice.org version 1.0 on 1
 May 2002."
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

> given that Microsoft is going all-in on AI and the cloud, and
> LibreOffice is not.

Well I don't know what modern M$ Office is like, but
Open/LibreOffice is definitely similar to M$ office versions in the
2000s when it started. There were already other individual
open-source programs for the separate "office" tasks, but they had
quite different interfaces and limited file format compatibility.
OpenOffice cloned the commercial office suite design which made
people more comfortable to switch, but also imported a lot of
design approaches I don't like personally, and more development
work which might encourage the developers to "go begging". The
individual programs still exist though, so I still use them, just
with occasional pain trying to convert document file formats.

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