Not as long as possible replacements aren’t platform-independent.

Oh. Thanks!

It’s still rather hard to maintain a software that can download from as many sources as possible on my own. It’s often a game of cat&mouse, sadly.

Contributions which improve the documentation are appreciated.

Feedback and patches welcome!

Thanks!

I wish my own alternative would get similar praises, because it was there when YouTube-dl wasn’t. I’m really bad at marketing, it seems.

That’s mostly because using inferior software causes stress and stress is unhealthy.

The thread reads like Git is just as awesome to use as one would suspect from the outside, even for the original target audience.

You said “in the real world nobody much is doing the latter”.

LibreOffice can perfectly work with files stored on other people’s computers.

There is a difference between “cloud-hosting” (= storing your documents on other people’s computers) and “collaborative editing” (= working on the same file at the same time).

Then why can SoftMaker support it well and LibreOffice can’t?

But MS doesn’t even keep to that standard anymore.

To be fair, LibreOffice had (don’t know if it still has!) problems rendering OpenOffice .odt files in the past.

How is it Microsoft’s fault that the LibreOffice team fails to properly support its formats? Others can do it.

There are still a few issues left to fix in my experience.

There is Office software that can handle Microsoft formats better than other Office software. Still, Microsoft’s file formats are open.

Honest answer: People who would create spreadsheets for themselves.

Formats aren’t compatible. Parsers are.

However, in direct comparison with SoftMaker Office (which, admittedly, is not free software), LibreOffice is inconsistent, sluggish, unstable and less compatible with Microsoft formats.