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LibreOffice 26.2 Gets Rid Of The "Community" Edition Branding (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 8 months ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/opensource@programming.dev
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With the upcoming LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite release, they are getting rid of the "Community Edition" branding for the standard version of this widely-used cross-platform office suite.

LibreOffice previously was going for "Personal Edition" branding for this popular free software office suite. The "Personal Edition" branding was confusing and panned by users and ultimately then decided to brand it as the LibreOffice Community Edition. That too led to some user confusion and is now being phased out.

LibreOffice Community Edition was intended to distinguish between that common version of LibreOffice and any enterprise-focused versions of the office suite offered by other software partners. But back in June it was decided by the Board of Directors to drop that "Community" branding from The Document Foundation's LibreOffice builds.

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[-] neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz 33 points 8 months ago

Community edition would have made sense if there was a official commercial version that supported things like group policy etc. But features like that are already in the open source release, there's very little that a corporate version could add. It even does sharepoint via webdav.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What other versions are there? Collabora and OnlyOffice use a different web based UI

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