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The Open Source Superiority Complex
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The Open Source Superiority Complex

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A classic 'We are not the same' meme featuring a photograph of actor Giancarlo Esposito, known for his role as the meticulous and calculating Gus Fring. He is dressed in a sharp grey suit, adjusting his tie with a calm, serious, and slightly condescending expression. The image is overlaid with white text in three parts. At the top, it says, 'You are using MS Word'. In the middle, 'I'm using LibreOffice'. And at the bottom, 'Our documents are not the same'. The humor is derived from the juxtaposition of a common, proprietary software (MS Word) with its free and open-source alternative (LibreOffice), framed as a mark of sophistication. For developers, this meme taps into the cultural pride associated with using open-source tools, often seen as a more principled or technically pure choice over mainstream, corporate-pushed products. The punchline also cleverly hints at the very real formatting and compatibility issues that often arise between the two

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Sure, our documents aren't the same. Mine is in a fully documented, open standard format. Yours is a binary blob that changes its schema every time your marketing department needs a new font
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Sure, our documents aren't the same. Mine is in a fully documented, open standard format. Yours is a binary blob that changes its schema every time your marketing department needs a new font

  2. Anonymous

    Git just flagged a 9 MB diff because Word converted our ADR into XML confetti, LibreOffice reflowed it, and the merge conflict is now in Wingdings - document-driven chaos engineering at its finest

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years in tech, I've learned that 'cross-platform compatible' is just industry speak for 'your carefully crafted document will look like it went through a blender, but at least it opens.' The real compatibility layer isn't XML or ODF - it's PDF and the resignation that nobody will ever edit it again

  4. Anonymous

    The eternal optimism of sending a LibreOffice document to a client and hoping the bullet points don't transform into abstract art. We've all learned the hard way that 'open standards' and 'actual interoperability' exist in parallel universes - one where your carefully crafted technical proposal renders perfectly, and the reality where your margins have achieved sentience and your fonts have been replaced by Comic Sans's distant cousin

  5. Anonymous

    Sending a DOCX from Word to LibreOffice is the desktop equivalent of integrating two “RESTful” services - both “compliant,” both in quirks mode, and your bullet points become an eventual consistency demo

  6. Anonymous

    Office suites and CAP theorem: pick two from Compatibility, Aesthetics, Proprietary - LibreOffice picks the wrong two

  7. Anonymous

    ODT↔DOCX is the worst API - same nouns, different semantics; after one round-trip, your page numbers implement eventual consistency

  8. @KentoSenjo 2y

    I have been using LibreOffice for a long time and have never encountered font curvature

    1. @prirai 2y

      Libreoffice actually makes better structured documents.

  9. no name 2y

    You should've used LaTeX

    1. @sylfn 2y

      only if it was not this slow

      1. @endisn16h 2y

        groff

      2. @mokurin000 2y

        typst

    2. @WaterCat73 2y

      It's awesome for equations, but heck as tedious for documents

      1. no name 2y

        it may be time consuming but at least output is consistent

        1. @WaterCat73 2y

          It'll be consistant for any program. Failures happen when converting formats

        2. @Assarbad 2y

          And beautiful

  10. @rubelem 2y

    Still waiting for someone rewrite TeX in Go/Rust 😂

    1. @Assarbad 2y

      There is such a project https://typst.app/

  11. @rubelem 2y

    (wish it was that simple)

  12. @Drvisor 2y

    Libre office creates documents in open formats whereas MS office wants you tobe addicted to constantly changing proprietary format. Support of open format is good for everyone except MS 😂

  13. @Assarbad 2y

    Same here. But I am keeping an eye on it. LuaLaTeX with TikZ and friends is my favorite still, though.

  14. @SamsonovAnton 2y

    To be more exact

  15. @phpzapecanus 2y

    Use Google docs instead

    1. @ilovethicktights 2y

      wordpad 😌

      1. @phpzapecanus 2y

        Notebook (navigate through this compiled byte code)

        1. @ilovethicktights 2y

          .class

          1. @phpzapecanus 2y

            .css

          2. @phpzapecanus 2y

            ascii encoded

  16. @ercolebellucci 2y

    write on notebook

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