LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

124•rpgbr•41m ago

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piker•35m ago

It’s also been baked into Codex. Go figure

thenewnewguy•30m ago

It's open source software - it can be baked into pretty much anything given they follow the license terms.

user43928•9m 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•29m ago

Explains the download records as well

jdiff•27m ago

Not really. One entity embedding the software into another will only account for at most a handful of downloads.

nicce•25m ago

Unless Codex is vibe coded and it downloads it directly on every installation…

empath75•14m 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.

firefax•31m 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.

smokel•27m 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•21m ago

Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)

worldsavior•10m ago

First!

podgietaru•19m ago

What? A Unix timestamp literally cannot ever be lower. Its a completely assinine comparison isn't it?

This is comparative.

ChrisArchitect•24m ago

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

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

utopiah•17m ago

So related it's in the blog post.

tiahura•22m 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•11m ago

Tell me you haven't used LibreOffice without telling me you haven't used LibreOffice.

It's actually a pretty great software suite.

dotinvictim•19m ago

enough with this anti ai noise resistance is futile it's getting popular due to improved ui

allears•15m 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.

rationalist•13m ago

I'm not anti-AI (I have a ChatGPT subscription), I just don't like bloat and nagging.

r053bud•12m 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•8m ago

Enough with this pro-ai noise.

jgbuddy•16m ago

Could also be due to the fact that every codex install includes a copy of libreoffice

ngruhn•8m ago

what? why?

hn_submit•11m 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.

thataccount•9m ago

This is the way!

Joel_Mckay•9m 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

rietta•7m 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!

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