This is awesome! I have used LibreOffice (and Open Office) extensively for decades now. It is my real office suite I use for real work and real business accounting tasks. Yes, I am very well aware that Calc is different than Excel but it can get nearly all the same tasks done as long as you are not tied deep into a corporate environment passing Excel-specific files around. I have also made great business uses of it in Docker too, generating perfect PDFS from templates, and normalizing document formats for analysis. I donate a modest $19/month personally to the foundation, much rather pay them than Microsoft!

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mmooss 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> normalizing document formats for analysis

What do you mean here? Normalizing it into ODF format? Does that limit which tools/libraries you can use to analyze it?

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rietta 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Normalize into flat xml that I could then parse in Nokogiri.

Edit for clarity: I am a Rubyist at heart so I reach for Ruby for almost all of my automation, ML, and even now AI stuff. Fro a very long time, I have been able to use CLI LibreOffice to do amazing things. It can read everything, even obscure formats by today's standards, going back into the 1990s. And then once in OpenOffice XML you have one target to parse in your scripting language of choice to do document analysis, data loss prevention detection, and more. All with a clean open source license with no server usage restrictions, unlike MS Office.

	▲	mmooss 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if that's how Codex uses LibreOffice.