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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Kind of shocked that he was using big tech instead of self hosting or using the fediverse, or a nextcloud instance and smaller email providers or something.

This has happened before and it will happen again, wondering why open source developers of all people don't realise this.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago

I assume they have MS dev accounts to help with stuff like building compatibility with microdick file formats.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 36 points 21 hours ago

OK kids, one more time. Repeat after me: Cloud is just someone else’s computer.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Means they're aware of libre office and they're scared, so that's positive. I'm guessing the European countries switching over is making them nervous.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 43 points 1 day ago

Microsoft just casually being a monopoly

[–] dzajew@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago

Bill Gates would be proud