Maybe if I tried again now to teach anybody about a free office suite I would get much better attention and interest. Probably for that reason M$ went with the subscription model, with "pay for use online". Of course, back then OpenOffice/Libreoffice wasn't quite as featured as it is now. That anger turned into helplessness and I wanted to disappear into a hole for even introducing any program to this family member. Got mad watching them using the word processor and doing almost everything from the toolbar. It's because they had a copy of M$ Office somewhere, and I'm not saying anything else about it. They weren't even overly excited the program was being offered for free download. Then I discovered they weren't very enthused about it. I spent about half an hour teaching them how to use the Writer, how to use the auto-format, showing them that the auto-format worked in other programs of the suite such as the spreadsheet, and more. I had a copy of OpenOffice-dot-org v4 (predecessor of Libreoffice) which was "by Apache" at the time, to introduce to a family member. Nearly 10 years ago I had an experience which caused me to desire not to help anybody with anything about computers.
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