>but it has enough market share that it can't be completely ignored.
This is the Hacker News bubble in action. Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it. They ignore it and they thrive. Maybe you need to pay attention if you're dealing with certain European governments these days - I'm not sure because I completely ignore it and haven't paid attention since there was just OpenOffice and LibreOffice didn't even exist yet.
> Maybe you need to pay attention if you're dealing with certain European governments these day
Open document formats have been the UK standard for things like .gov.uk for many years. About a decade IIRC. Ignored by some people (notably the Office of National Statistics, of whatever its called these days).
> Most of the world, most of America, most of China, India, etc. haven't even heard of it.
I have come across quite a few non-tech people who use Libre Office.
It has great (some people say better than MS Word with itself between version) compatibility with MS office formats.
I fixed a computer for some old people once who weren't the least bit technical, but they had LibreOffice installed. My guess is they found it searching "microsoft word free" or similar. A bit like how some kids end up finding Minetest/Luanti by searching "free Minecraft".
Source on most of China/India not having heard of libreoffice?
Kingsoft recently announced that WPS Office has 620M MAU users, the bulk of which is in China. Microsoft has even more Office users in China
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-microsoft-office-rival...
So if China has heard of LibreOffice, they clearly didn't like what they've heard...
It's the product of a government owned company... in China. What do you expect?
Moreover, what you write is monitored, and you may loose documents based on what you write [1].
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-frozen-document-in-china-unle...
> Moreover, what you write is monitored
So just like MS Word then
So, because competitors have traction nobody has heard of libre office? That's not a logical statement.
You can't prove a negative. Usage numbers tell the real story. Either people haven't heard of it, or, worse for proponents, they have heard of it and have decided it's not good enough.