shminux comments on What are you working on? October 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: David_Gerard 01 October 2013 08:24PM

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Comment author: shminux 01 October 2013 08:53:51PM 0 points [-]

Why work on polishing a description of a discontinued product?

Comment author: David_Gerard 01 October 2013 09:04:26PM *  4 points [-]

'Cos I FELT LIKE IT. It's also pretty historically important. Documents are boring, but our large and complicated civilisation runs on them. With OpenDocument (being both an open format and machine-processable), OOo changed the game.

edit: The article also used to cover Apache OpenOffice, but that's now a separate article (it got separated out just after AOO 4.0).