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You're right of course, but look at this like someone who's not a nerd. You don't have to maintain your own car. You don't have to cook your own meals. You don't have to fix your own plumbing or electricity. If you get sold a lemon, or were fed spoiled food, or your apartment is unlivable, then it's not really your fault and you often have legal recourse.
But you do have to learn a lot about the computer, and if you do it wrong everybody just calls you stupid. I'm lucky it's not like that for dancing.
This guy is a LibreOffice developer. He should be smarter than the average Internet Idiot. By far. By all means, he should know not to trust Microsoft.
And comparing this to maintaing a car or house is comparing apples and oranges. In those cases, I have rather clear legal means to get my rights. Online, not so much. And even worse for those living outside the US.
Fair, I was referring more to u/deus03690.
I'd even call him/her an idiot. Assuming the "30 years of irreplacable data" means that he/she is around on the internet for at least half the time, even this person should have learned from many cases like this that online only storage is not viable, especially for important data.