Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.

[p@hj.9fs.net]

Yeah!

CC: @markwyner@mas.to @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

[hellpie@raru.re]

@markwyner @libreoffice

- do nothing
- win

and you know what, props to them for pulling it off

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@markwyner @libreoffice 1M downloads for MS OfficePay365-24-7 might be a rounding error.... But 1M *new* downloads for an alternative office suite that does NOT spend BILLIONS in advertisement and does NOT have locked dependent entities the size of US Govt is kind of a big deal.

Plus, those 1M new users usually never go back to MS stuff.
#LibreOffice #FOSS

[danish_akhtar7@mastodon.social]

@markwyner @libreoffice

I recently made a document on it. It's really great. Try it.

[kagan@wandering.shop]

@markwyner @libreoffice This makes me happy.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@markwyner @libreoffice Now they just need to expel all the "AI" generated code they've ingested.

[markwyner@mas.to]

@JaxVent fabier. Nice.

[lhauser@mefi.social]

@markwyner @libreoffice So much nicer on my Mac than MS Office. I'm not a fan of word processing software, but when you need it, you need it, and LibreOffice Writer did what I needed it to do.

[krono@toot.berlin]

@libreoffice @somekindofgarf @markwyner I would love to see a No AI policy altogether.
Just for a datapoint.

[frank@indieweb.social]

@libreoffice @somekindofgarf @markwyner could it be related to this? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/

[owl@bog.fan]

@markwyner @libreoffice
I hope it is extended to "no AI code"

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@markwyner @libreoffice It's almost as if people hate "AI" for some reason.

[johncormier@cosocial.ca]

@markwyner @libreoffice I downloaded LibreOffice over the weekend, and began using it in earnest for work this week. As of this writing, I’m two full days in and have no issues to report. It does everything I currently need it to do.

[anniethebruce@transfem.social]

@markwyner@mas.to @libreoffice@fosstodon.org I remember looking into OnlyOffice and they were hyping AI.

If I run into a use case for it(and an AI with acceptable ethics, that's the hard part), the LibreOffice plugin architecture lets me add some AI.

There's really no good reason to pollute the core application with it. Maybe some use cases could benefit from some tighter integration, but that's a reason to look at the plugin system, not throw a peripheral feature in alongside editing and formatting features. Hey, other plugins might benefit from that too!

So that brief exploration of OO didn't even get as far as a download.

[ariarhythmic@ohai.social]

@markwyner @libreoffice No AI is inevitable! Ditch AI or be left behind!

[steveyaeger@mastodon.social]

@johncormier @markwyner @libreoffice Same. Been a few months now and no barriers. Easy interoperability with Microsoft Office docs when needed, too.

[processparsnip@mastodon.ie]

@libreoffice I, too, would love to see a no-LLM policy on all submissions.

Thanks for not adding AI "features" to the office suite, tho!

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@markwyner

It is though terribly, terribly disappointing that nowhere in their reasons do @libreoffice cite ethical concerns of any kind.