From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-16, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  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.   
   >   
   > According to Wikipedia, it started in *1985*. Might not have been open   
   > source then,   
      
   Well that just further proves my point, it wasn't just taking cues   
   from commercial software, it originally was commercial software.   
   Sustaining a project with a commercial-style design and scale is   
   more likely to require donations than other open-source software   
   projects that perform single "office" tasks in their own, often   
   more unique, way.   
      
   As usual LDO snipped that point I was trying to make from my   
   earlier post.   
      
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > It. Did. Not. Start. In. The. 2000s.   
      
   Yikes, well OK the codebase went back further before it was   
   open-sourced. I'm really not that fussed about the specifics of its   
   history.   
      
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