LibreOfficeFeb 24
Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
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Sorry to interrupt the tech talkers but ... as a long time non tech just ordinary run of the mill common user who escaped from MS Word ... I sincerely hope you will not make it all too tech so we common folk can't just use it as a word processor ...

I have enough trouble now keeping pics/photos set out as I want them ... seems there's a bloody fairy in my computer that moves pics around when I'm not looking ...

And I don't want to save my stuff online, USB is good enough for me ...

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Show threadQoleFeb 25
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This is about building a free, open source replacement for online, cloud services like Google Docs, or Office 365, this shouldn't impact the desktop OpenOffice suite.
My kid, in university, uses Google Docs almost exclusively for everything, because you can share your documents and edit them collaboratively, in real time, with people from all over. It's kind of amazing, watching multiple people editing a document simultaneously...
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@qole @libreoffice

Thanks for the reply ...
I don't let anybody touch my documents ... takes me years sometimes to research the facts and I don't let anybody alter them ... especially as they came to me in the first place to find the facts ...

What they do with their family secrets after I hand over the PDF is up to them :)

Never heard of Google Docs and not going to let them or anybody else use my documents for their AI ...

I know they can steal it by seeing where I go and what I find ... but I'm not going to just hand it over ...

Show threadQoleFeb 25

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A lot of people feel the way you do about Google, which is why this announcement is such a big deal. It means that LibreOffice is restarting the project that will let us set up our own online document editor, without having to go through Google.

And the nice thing about a browser-based office suite, even if you don't want to collaborate, is that you can edit your documents on any device, without having to make copies. You can update a document on your phone or laptop, and when you go home, your changes are all there on your home PC!

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@qole @libreoffice

Not just Google ... I don't use any cloud services ... which is why I know when emails come through via Google's Firebaseapp telling me my Cloud is full so pay up, or that Norton found a virus ... I can block sender ... doesn't stop them though which is another reason Google is no longer my friend ..

I'm the old fashioned type with external hard drives and USBs ... many USBs ... and duplicates in case the house or garage burns down :)

Never have liked relying on others ... for anything :)

And as long as Libreoffice allows me to do my own thing ... I will continue to use ... and donate when I can.

Even with their few faults still better than MS ...