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Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Nice. Maybe now Microsoft will respond by ~~offering non-subscription options~~ inventing a new proprietary industry-standard file format so their bloated ransomware remains mandatory.

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cactopuses@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Fortunately platforms like docs are providing sufficient competition that I don’t think they’d be able to lock it down as effectively as they once could.

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- Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  They’ll have to settle for “warning” the user if they detect a file that was made by libreoffice.
  
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  - PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    The warning can be disabled from the settings
    
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    Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s still enabled by default and acts as extra FUD for the average user who probably won’t know to disable it and might get spooked by it.
    
    The favt it can be opted out of doesn’t change its propaganda value at all.
    
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