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im willing to bet its easier to generate a new office than it is to fix libreoffice

I'm willing to take the other side of that bet. Quoting this article [1]:

> The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’s nothing wrong with it.

LibreOffice has to be feature-per-feature, bug-per-bug compatible with a poorly-documented office suite that's been around for 35 years, so it's no surprise that they don't always get it right. I don't see a new office suite doing any better, unless they decide that compatibility with MS Word is no longer a priority.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

OnlyOffice, despite being newer than LibreOffice, has better compatibility with office documents and is way ahead in terms of UI. Plus it runs on Linux.

The difference is OnlyOffice actually wants to make money. Which means it needs to be good.

Isn't OnlyOffice a fork of LibreOffice?

If you want a new "office" that doesn't work, sure, but you don't need AI for that.

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