LibreOfficeApr 7
Our sense of meritocracy
A project that confuses meritocracy with the dominance of a single type of contributor fails to live up to its own values. And a project that bends to the interests of some contributors, at the expense of future generations, is a form of appropriation masked by the language of fairness.
Meritocracy is a complex, multifaceted concept that is worth grappling with in order to build something that future generations will be happy to inherit.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/07/our-sense-of-meritocracy/
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Show threadnicolaottomanoApr 7
@libreoffice @tdforg My 2 cents: I see the whole thing as a huge mistake. LibreOffice has been killed by years of slow improvements and poor decisions on UI. Now, that's the final blow.
My only issue is: now that OnlyOffice unveiled its real face and LibreOffice is terminally ill, we have not many options left. I'm thinking to switch to @CollaboraOffice
Show threadTobias ErnstApr 7
@nicolaottomano @CollaboraOffice @libreoffice @tdforg I am not so sure about the poor decisions on UI. What I cherish about LibreOffice is that the UI does not change completely every other year. This actually offers an opportunity to learn and become more proficient, whereas with MS Office you just give up at some point and stop using its full potential because you are fed up with having to re-learn every other year.
Show threadnicolaottomano
@tobifant @libreoffice @CollaboraOffice @tdforg I have to use MS Office on my company PC. The UI barely changed from 2007, with the exception of eye-candy parts and new functionalities. That's the great advantage of MSO: people in their 40s started learning how to use it at school... and they are familiar with the UI, making MSO the preferred choice at work.
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Show threadTobias ErnstApr 8
@nicolaottomano @CollaboraOffice @libreoffice @tdforg Not at all. The more eye-candy there was, the less the keyboard combinations that we learned back in the day still worked. They are slowly being removed forcing us to ever more use the mouse. I hate it. Alt +L,G,O (in the German version) to insert a line above the current line in a table? Gone for good. Just one example out of ever so many.