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i trade shares on the stockmarket, i have been between MS office and libreoffic, but am unsure if libreoffice will be around in 10-20 years… can anyone give some light on this issue? do i just buy MS office outright or will libre be around?
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Looking for the most simple form of use, part of the reason i am wanting to change is because of MS supposedly giving Political Correct checks on my documents…
Please keep main question short.
“Political Correct checks”? Can’t say that the phrase makes any sense to me; but whatever that could be, if some software does the job for you, and it is worth its money, then there’s nothing wrong in the change. Also possibly - just possibly - some clearer description could help others understand your actual issue. Putting two different and independent things - long-term predictions (but of course, we all know that about MS Office; the only question might arise about LO - sure sure!) and “Political Correct checks” - seems strange.
Yes Political correct spell checks, as in supposed hate speech… it was longer but was edited
Questions/Answers remain for others who need same information to review.
Regarding “Political Correct checks” see → https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/soon-microsoft-word-will-edit-document-political-correctness/. The old paperclip revisited with a twist.
Hi
Some points of reference:
My opinion is that what should concern you is the durability of your data and not the software by which you access it.
Whatever the future of LibreOffice (and the above-mentioned facts, as well as our very large community around the world, make me very confident on this point) this format guarantees me reliable access to my data.
Regards
ah Beauty, that is the answer i was looking for, much appreciated… i will cancel this question tomorrow… thank you PYS
Please don’t cancel. It can everybody help.
Well - since I’m just back from my Time Machine travel to the 20 years future, I can assure you that there has not been any global disaster that wiped out humanity from the planet’s face; and I could see LibreOffice still there… or wait, was it just some kind of magic crystal telling me that undoubtful truth from future? Ah no, of course I consulted my favorite fortune teller to know that!
Anyway: do you Really Seriously Believe that asking questions like “who can shed light to what happen in 10-20 years from today” has any sense?!
ok mate, it is regard to what seems like other office type programs seem to go to the wayside… Apache for example… and i am not that up on all the tech, so i don’t know how it works, whether the people making it all end up getting to retirement age and don’t want to do anything with it anymore etc… my message says i trade shares, so i don’t want recorded data that i have to reenter down the track to somewhere else
the question is in relation to people who have been around and if they see a pattern of free office suites starting up and then fading… is that too hard to comprehend?
… is that too hard to comprehend?
No, but you have the answer from @mikekaganski, nobody can look to the future.
But you can say LibreOffice is a great project. There are very many professionals and hundreds of volunteers at work. Everyone wants and wants LibreOffice to stay successful. Yes, and if it goes much more than 20 years. Everyone involved believes in it.
And there are millions of users.
This beautiful LibreOffice project is also dependent on donations and volunteers. So the better the more you participate.
That’s why I ask you to become part of this great and great community. I say welcome.
no, the answer from Mike is stupid… sounds like he hates his life and is taking it out on me… maybe he hates living in Russia
How can you want to judge another person without really knowing him? Who asks a question in the future or the future. Do not be surprised to get very different answers.
@mikekaganski does not have to live in Russia just because he is Russian.
I really appreciated him with his answers. And you think his answer here is more of a joke.
You do not have to put it on the gold scale.
The question is for people who have an understanding in the field… yes it is a stretch to answer the question, but i know things in my life that i have spent years and years being involved in, and if someone was to ask, will this be relevant in the future, based on what i have seen over the previous times i can give an answer to the best of my knowledge, not some answer i would expect to find on a youtube comment section… and the reason i know this is because based on everyone else’s helpful, reasonable and thoughtful answers, Mikes Answer sounds like he is having a bad day… i was about to buy MS office after Mikes comment, as i thought, if these are the people here then i’d rather deal with Microsoft, but after the other helpful answers, LO is worth being a part of… this stuff is not my bread and butter, but alas,maybe Mike might come to Australia and try surfing and ask a question about it and i can answer him like he is a xyz, which he probably is…
Heh, I see some irony in this lengthy discussion of my crimes 
First off, I feel obliged to mention that I’m sorry if my answer (and comment) has hurt OP. Not because I think I said something inappropriate, but because - well, it wasn’t supposed to hurt.
Second, I need to say that re-reading the question, I feel that I misunderstood one part of it: namely:
part of the reason i am wanting to change is because of MS supposedly giving Political Correct checks on my documents
Possibly due to having poor language skills, but more likely because of missing explanation: I couldn’t see in the phrase (or in previous text), from which software to which the “change” is meant; and also is the “Political Correct checks” deemed good or bad. So - mea culpa - I took one of the two possible explanations as granted, and drove conclusions from that: thinking that OP tells about switching from LO to MSO.
Being a developer, I value precision in questions as much as in answers; and seeing a vague question, I suppose that teaching the questioner how to ask better questions is at least as important as providing answers. I think that “political correctness” of satirical answer is of less value than its educationsl payload: it’s better if asker sees a satirical answer and asks themselves “what was not ideal in my question, and how could I improve”, than telling others how they could do better in understanding not-so-ideal questions. And here, in that accent on “politial correctness”, is the irony I mentioned above.
The last thing I wanted to add it the quote from Simon Tatham from UK: “All the most unclear reports come from native English speakers who assume that I will understand them even if they don’t make any effort to be clear or precise”.
By the way, be it a coincidence or not - but all the constructive responses here only appeared after OP has clarified the idea behind the question in response to my first answer …