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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2026
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I've been using OpenOffice for forever, before it was cool
I used OpenOffice until it didn't work for some reason, I switched to LibreOffice and I haven't looked back.
Its been unmaintained for years.
Guess I better switch, too!
It didn't for some reason? It didn't work for a relatively precise reason.
And that reason is Larry Ellison. He (Oracle) bought Sun, which was leading the OpenOffice.org project.
At the time Google was still not evil, people thought Facebook was a good idea. It was the time when people actually liked big tech.
Even then Ellison was already so massively disliked in the industry that the very moment he got his hands on OO.o LibreOffice was created and all contributors jumped ship.
Larry Ellison was the reason
I remember using it when it was Star Office... Think it got given away on a cover disk on a magazine.
I used it. It was good for it's time.
Openoffice was always cool!
James was always cool.