LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

(manualdousuario.net)

129 points | by rpgbr 38 minutes ago

12 comments

  • smokel 24 minutes ago
    The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless.

    Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

    • rf15 17 minutes ago
      Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)
    • podgietaru 16 minutes ago
      What? A Unix timestamp literally cannot ever be lower. Its a completely assinine comparison isn't it?

      This is comparative.

  • hn_submit 7 minutes ago
    Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.
  • jgbuddy 12 minutes ago
    Could also be due to the fact that every codex install includes a copy of libreoffice
  • rietta 3 minutes ago
    This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it can get nearly all the same tasks done as long as you are not tied deep into a corporate environment passing Excel-specific files around. I have also made great business uses of it in Docker too, generating perfect PDFS from templates, and normalizing document formats for analysis. I donate a modest $19/month personally to the foundation, much rather pay them than Microsoft!
  • firefax 28 minutes ago
    I've been using Libreoffice to store my diary for years -- IIRC they use blowfish on the crypto side of things? I had a weird issue a while back where I'm not sure if I forgot my diary's password, or the file got corrupted.

    I've had that happen a few times, each with a long space in between I keep things on paper.

    It's a great project that doesn't get enough love.

  • piker 31 minutes ago
    It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure
    • thenewnewguy 26 minutes ago
      It's open source software - it can be baked into pretty much anything given they follow the license terms.
      • user43928 5 minutes ago
        The question is whether the 10 million active users of Codex / ChatGPT Work count towards the download count.

        That would contradict the cause implied in the title here.

    • jkahrs595 25 minutes ago
      Explains the download records as well
      • jdiff 24 minutes ago
        Not really. One entity embedding the software into another will only account for at most a handful of downloads.
        • nicce 22 minutes ago
          Unless Codex is vibe coded and it downloads it directly on every installation…
    • empath75 10 minutes ago
      I think it's not baked into codex, but codex has either been instructed to download it when asked to edit word docs/excel spreadsheets, or it picked it up during training.
  • thataccount 6 minutes ago
    This is the way!
  • advenn 3 minutes ago
    Do nothing and win
  • Joel_Mckay 5 minutes ago
    Are you sure it wasn't Microsoft doing a rug-pull October 13 on offline Office 2021 pro lifetime license installations for MacOS.

    A lot of people are not happy about that stunt. =3

  • ChrisArchitect 21 minutes ago
    Related:

    Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553350

    • utopiah 13 minutes ago
      So related it's in the blog post.
  • dotinvictim 16 minutes ago
    enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui
    • rationalist 9 minutes ago
      I'm not anti-AI (I have a ChatGPT subscription), I just don't like bloat and nagging.
    • r053bud 9 minutes ago
      You’re wrong. Despite its usefulness in our profession, AI is deeply unpopular with the general public and products that don’t include it are rapidly gaining in popularity. People are tired of AI being shoved down their throats without consent.
    • monsieurgaufre 4 minutes ago
      Enough with this pro-ai noise.
    • allears 12 minutes ago
      Nonsense. I can (and do) resist a lot of things. Society in general may well be screwed, but I'll at least hold onto a bit of self-respect.
  • tiahura 18 minutes ago
    Hopefully LibreOffice is one of the projects that gets free Pro Max accounts from A and O.

    Corporations have been trying Star/Open/LibreOffice migrations for literally 30 years at this point. And, at the pace it’s been going, it will probably take another 30 for it to reach Word 95 polish.

    • stackghost 7 minutes ago
      Tell me you haven't used LibreOffice without telling me you haven't used LibreOffice.

      It's actually a pretty great software suite.