OpenOffice.org

So, I mean, there's lots of alternatives to cloud storage than from, you know, Apple or Google or Microsoft.

And if you're only a casual user of those types of apps, as far as, you know, Office goes, then sure, why spend the 99 bucks a year? Just get one of these, whether it's Libra or OpenOffice or any of them.

Eric?

I, for the most part, just live with whatever I get coming into pages, numbers, and keynote.

So if you go to their website to download, you may be asked to provide a donation, but it's not a requirement to download their program.

Another one that you might have heard of I use is OpenOffice.

Right.

OpenOffice is another program, that same idea, full suite, that you're able to access all those programs.

And this is the part that I mentioned has been in the news big time recently because with the advent of AI, we talked about it a lot, you're seeing a lot of emulators creating new programs, quote-unquote new programs, that are pretty much just ripping copies of these programs, of a full version of Office under a pseudonym name.

But they're not being published by known...

Not like something like LibreOffice or OpenOffice that have been around for a long time that are well known and regarded in the industry.

They're just coming out as random AI generations of these with a lot of information unknown about where the signup information that you're getting these products for is coming from.

Because Microsoft Word is so hard to use that... like if something goes wrong, at least there's a manual somewhere.

I think OpenOffice was

kind of the same vibe from 15, 20 years ago, whatever, of this, like where they kind of remade a Microsoft Word.

It

And these skill files were basically, here is how to make a good PowerPoint.

Here is how to drive OpenOffice to make a Word doc.

And my thought was... wow, these would be really useful for software engineering process.

And so over the course of about a month and a half or so, I built myself a skill system for Cloud Code and a software development methodology that we can talk more about later.

As somebody who used open office for an extremely long time.

Shouts to OpenOffice.

OpenOffice,

man.

Yo, a forgotten legend, yo.

We forgot in the era of Google Sheets and Google Docs.

Yeah, like Google was just like, we can do that.

But I was like, I don't, I still, there are a couple of things that anytime I got a desktop, I was like, let's put OpenOffice on it.

So we've had open source Office software for decades.

OpenOffice, which pretty much every place by LibreOffice and all those others have given us powerful alternatives to Microsoft Office.

But for many people coming from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, there's always been an adjustment.

It has features, but just doesn't quite feel the same.