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[โ€“] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, LibreOffice is also FOSS. There's no need to boycott FOSS based on region.

[โ€“] socialjusticewizard@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There isn't, but i for one feel better donating to foss creators outside the US at the moment.

[โ€“] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 19 points 5 months ago

Entirely fair.

[โ€“] datendefekt@feddit.org 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Softmaker Free Office has been around since 1987 and is also based in Germany.

My personal favorite, OnlyOffice, is based in Latvia. It also has a good integration with NextCloud.

[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is there a problem with that?

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. You might want to check the community this post is on, it's kinda the point to point it out here.

[โ€“] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah I missed that. I also usually see "friendly reminder" used to point out that something is bad or should be avoided, and I use libreoffice so I was wondering what could possibly be wrong with it

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Honest mistake, don't think you deserved the downvotes. And agree the text seems to be implying that if not for the community :)