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What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: https://youtu.be/9M468Krlawo

#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom


I had a sudden "what if…?" intuition for a potential #productivity speedup in my #opensource bug reporting workflow when tables of data are involved, and… it turns out that it is actually possible.

As you can see in this short demonstration I recorded below, you can paste #LibreOffice #spreadsheet cells into a #GitLab ticket, and it automatically converts it to a proper #MarkDown table. It just works! What is this sorcery!? 🤯 What a time to be alive.


Look! The #LibreOffice YouTube channel has just gone over 3 million views: https://www.youtube.com/@libreoffice-tdforg
Screenshot from YouTube Studio, showing view count of over 3 million


Today marks nine years since the last big OpenOffice update (4.1). If you're still using it, but want something more up-to-date, check out #LibreOffice! It was based on OpenOffice and is also free and open source, but with huge improvements and many fixes: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/
Infographic comparing LibreOffice with OpenOffice


Many thanks to the communities of #LaTeX ( #TeXLaTeX )and #AsciiDoctor for their wonderful tools for publishing and presentations. And a big applause to the people of #LibreOffice for their great office suit for the not-so-nerdy users. #ilovefs

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