Christine Hall on Nostr: OK, let's set the record straight here. LibreOffice is nowhere near 40 years old. The ...
OK, let's set the record straight here. LibreOffice is nowhere near 40 years old. The code of the product it's based on was based on StarOffice, which would be 40 years old this year, but as a StarOffice user from the '90s I can tell you that LibreOffice is nothing like StarOffice, which shipped with a browser and email client: LibreOffice goes collaborative and Wasm as ZetaOffice
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/Published at
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