LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538
#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community
Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.
“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”
Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
BRB, uninstalling VibreOffice. Fuck. #LibreOffice #Slop
RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/117207930196699334
See their linked blog post in the first toot. I predicted this. #LibreOffice
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843
This is the #LibreOffice reply everyone is talking about. #AI #FuckAI
Reminder: #LibreOffice includes no AI features in the software. It doesn't rewrite your content, train algorithms, or share your data. There is zero AI functionality in the app.
Regarding the use of LLMs in the development process, we have a strict policy about this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/AI_policy – Contributors who use such tools must be able to explain EVERY changed line of code. We do not accept any "slop".
Link at end, but given what everyone has learned with #LibreOffice and #Proton and all the other let downs recently, I keep banging the tech hates all of you drum because it is true. There are no good guys in tech. Not enough for me to say there are good guys. The good ones are deliberately made sure they are never given control, nor respected positions. This goes for the open-source community too. All of tech is this annoyingly brash Libertarian hugbox that doesn’t like you, at all, as a customer. You are data to them, nothing more, as they love investors more than they will ever make anything for you. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/a-thermodynamic-failure-of-the-soul/ #Tech #Technology #OpenSource
They just keep digging. https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117523827983352021 #LibreOffice #AI #NoAI
I'm deeply, deeply, suspicious of Tech that uses #NoAI as a marketing tool, and especially if they say in the next breath but we're not fully rejecting.... Blah Blah Blah. I wouldn't be shocked if they are just waiting to add LLM features in the future. I just don't trust *any* tech at this point, even software that says something like doesn't wanna be like them but isn't cutting it out completely. But oh well, I *hope* I am wrong. In the meantime, best thing you can do is hold your money until they prove it at least 100 times. I've seen this playbook before. No AI? A little AI, and then, oh whoops, LLM features just happened, guys! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/ #NoAI #LibreOffice
The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind #LibreOffice, now has its own visual identity: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/09/tdf-visual-identity/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
