653
LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
653 points (95.3% liked)
Technology
82000 readers
3823 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The Office ribbon is more recent than the previous menu styles, but newer!=better. The ribbon organizes fewer commands into less coherent groups, and replaced the descriptive text menu option for each setting with a tiny glyph instead, creating a modern hieroglyphic system known only to them. It then made sure this less efficient workflow took up more of the already limited vertical monitor real estate. The only benefit I can see would be for the illiterate, but what are they using an office site for if they can't read?