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by tiahura 771 days ago
Not the same thing.

- Libreoffice can edit Word and Excel files.

You are correct. Just because Libreoffice can mangle a docx file doesn't make them truly comparable.

emacs can edit a .sqlite file, but they aren't comparable.

The issue is the insanely massive investment needed to build and sustain a project with millions of lines of code for something that isn't particularly sexy.