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Sorry I forget sometimes. It’s just that OpenOffice is a way better name. “Libre” is a pretty uncommon word in English and LibreOffice sounds like astrology software.
yeah i agree the name is terrible.
Not if you speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or Romanian.
Which combined is more people than just English speakers.
Unfortunately, corporations have bastardized the term “open” (looking at you, OpenAI) trying to get the credit Open Source software has earned.
Libre was a good choice to emphasize “free as in speech”.
IIRC the LibreOffice fork happened years before the public had any awareness of OpenAI (and when OpenAI was, in fact, publishing open models).
I don't even know if I pronounce it right. Is it like libré or is it more like a lobster-tiger hybrid? Or a Lemur-cobra.hybtid?
Also, if they're watching, the themes still make the UI all funky unless it's on the default—at least for Calc, anyway.
Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.
Leeb-roffice
librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers
Ah, not it's again!
At risk of going of topic, is this a Millennial meme?
Like, I really hope younger folks have seen this.
I say leeb-ruh, like it’s a Spanish loanword.
Lee-bruh is definitely the way to go since it fluidly connects to the first syllable of "office". If you do "lib-ray" or "lee-bray", you're forcing a ton of unnecessary annunciation on yourself.
Agreed, but sounds too much like “Libra Office” ♎️⚖️
bruh
Think "Zebra" (NA English) but with an 'L'.
I’ve always pronounced it lib-ray