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LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues (fosstodon.org)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by s08nlql9@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 80 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Sorry I forget sometimes. It’s just that OpenOffice is a way better name. “Libre” is a pretty uncommon word in English and LibreOffice sounds like astrology software.

[–] brezel@piefed.social 34 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

yeah i agree the name is terrible.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 36 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.

Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

IIRC the LibreOffice fork happened years before the public had any awareness of OpenAI (and when OpenAI was, in fact, publishing open models).

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 hours ago

Not if you speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or Romanian.

Which combined is more people than just English speakers.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

I don't even know if I pronounce it right. Is it like libré or is it more like a lobster-tiger hybrid? Or a Lemur-cobra.hybtid?

Also, if they're watching, the themes still make the UI all funky unless it's on the default—at least for Calc, anyway.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I say leeb-ruh, like it’s a Spanish loanword.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of "office". If you do "lib-ray" or "lee-bray", you're forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.