Comment Re:Even Libre is often overkill (Score 1) 276
The average person when they are at work or at home? At work, they do have to fiddle with formatting, do mail merges, have indexes, tables of contents and bibliographies. Hell, I gave up fighting Libre over a table of contents needed for a compliance manual I had to throw together.
I'll admit I only know what I've seen at the companies I've specifically worked for. But even at a company that would need such things, most of the employees wouldn't be generating those kinds of documents. You could get licenses only for those few that actually need it (as you'd do with Photoshop or whatnot) and keep everyone else on something cheap and simple.
Come to think of it, at my current company (medical billing SaaS), I'd bet that if you took all of the employee-generated text and grouped it by what application created it, most of it wouldn't come from Word or equivalents at all. It would have been typed into email, chat, or issue tracking software. About the only time I read an actual internally-created document is when I read about benefits when enrollment comes around each year.
And people complain about Microsoft's telemetry (which can be turned off if you aren't using a free version), but Google's is worse. Why give them your document when they're just going to use it to target more ads at you?
I didn't mean Google Docs specifically, I meant something of that level of capability. There are open-source equivalents that one can self-host.
