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Comment by weinzierl

> ...and make a commercial product out of it.

For that to be viable it would have to add a real benefit that people would be willing to pay for. Given that LibreOffice is the child of commercial software (StarOffice) that tried exactly this - at a time when the market for office software was much better - I have little hope for a commercial desktop office that is not Microsoft. Even for Microsoft the market for the desktop version seems to be dying.

That doesn't mean that apparently some have made a profit from OpenOffice and LibreOffice. I haven't seen one in a while but for some time scams that tried to sell you an unmodified OpenOffice or LibreOffice on a subscription basis were quite common.

parent weinzierl 6 years ago

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