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Which is why we support Open Source like Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, NextCloud, LibreOffice and a whole lot more. :-)
Any good VPNs big dawg?
I don't need VPN... Sorry mate.
I'd cut nextcloud from that list
Why?
As long as it is open source, then there's not much to worry about. ;-)
With euro office coming up, there was some messing that libre office has Russian roots, does that change the equation any?
From what I understood: ONLYOFFICE is a fork of Libre Office by a russian company. NextCloud was using ONLYOFFICE for its built-in cloud office suite replacement. Then they forked it with others to have greater control on the software with no communication whatsever to the company developing ONLYOFFICE without respecting their questionnable trademark restriction within ONLYOFFICE licence which I am still unsure if it was compatible with GPL licence Libre Office is using.
It's Euro-Office that might have Russians roots. Do get the facts straight. ;-)
LibreOffice is the only real free and open, open source office suite out there.
Man it took me 3 days of re-reading to only now realize that there is OPENoffice that is forked to libre office, and ONLYoffice, which has strong russian origins.
Til that only-office is even a thing. Far too easy to misread when I wasn't expecting only as a prefix to office. I'm sure I'm not the only one that got tripped up.
Also PSA: euro office isn't a standalone offline office suite - it's web based and doesn't run standalone. Needs next cloud and quite a bit of setup to allow for that M$365 'experience'.
Isn't libre also a fork of open?
afaik euro-office is a fork of libreoffice that is redesigned to look more like onlyoffice
that or it's a fork from onlyoffice