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The sad part is, I think they have...
Remember when the world wasn't fucked up and Microsoft got spanked just for including IE in the OS? Look at the shit these fucks get away with now.
I remember when microsoft office 365 was a thing for college students and the free version that everyone used had 80% access to the programs with, "some features," grayed out in drop down menus.
Has Libreoffice or Linux profitted off of Genocide like Microsoft has? No? Why are you using Microsoft then?
The thing is, if this meant anything it would've shut down LibreOffice years ago. It's not illegal to be in the likeness of something. Look at Fender Bass Guitars and Sadowsky Bass Guitars. Sadowsky is in the likeness of Fender and they're indirect competition. The difference is, is that Fender isn't a baby about it.
Microslop is just fucking butthurt that people don't want to pay to read documents.
"Our monopoly is providing so little value for consumers that they've started to make the products for themselves!"
Lmfao Save the installation file while you can. I love LibreOffice. Shit's saved me so much time and money. Not gonna lie it's fucking scummy to begin with to lock the main document reading program of the operating system itself and forcing users to pay an annual service fee while the program itself runs like total shit and notoriously has ran like shit since XP. That's 6 major OS changes later and it's still shit. 24 years later since microsoft office became shit and ...... it's still shit
LibreOffice, is what Microsoft Office should be and they hate it. π microsoft
Ah yes because they fear losing the ability to charge annual and monthly subscriptions for their spyware. And no MSFT for the 30th time I donβt want to try Copilot just like I didnβt want to deal with that ho Cortana you pimped out before.
Not to mention that it feels like Microslop only makes Copilot vibecoded slopware.
My favorite was when I spent a few hours disabling all their shit and an update brought it all back.
Clippy, did they not learn their lesson in 95?
I to remember him.
They're directly lobbying the government on a massive scale. They're looking for every opportunity to force their software on people buying any computer, like they always have. They're looking for every technical trick to screw the competition, and to extract more from their customers. Where it's possible (i.e. not LibreOffice) they're buying up any company that does threaten to successfully compete with them. They bought half the video game industry for example. They're buying their way into all the schools so kids grow up knowing nothing but the Microsoft life.
I mean what else would they do? It's Microsoft.
Excel is a wonderful piece of technology, the full capacity of which I donβt even come close to fully utilizing. I can appreciate that as a piece of art, but I can also get everything I need done in libreoffice calc and then I donβt have to support and rely on microsoft.
I've worked at some banks quite a few years ago and Excel was basically a cheap application space for them. The cells were inputs/outputs, they used VBA, and COM+ which talked to SQL to perform calculations and all that. It was really weird but every iteration that they wrote to replace Excel (they needed to because of banking auditing regulations) had failed simply due to the features they would get from it. It was wild to see at the time.
I did some pretty amazing things with Excel and VBA in the day.
I made a whole CRM in Google sheets once, with appscript and an animated dancing badger Easter egg
Or OnlyOffice, but there are problematic elements. Then again, what doesn't have that these days?
Chromebooks are taking over Windows PCs in public schools these days. I was only taught how to use Windows PCs when I was a kid in school, though. 90s/00s.
Yeah. Not exactly an improvement, is it.
Arguably worse. Google does all kinds of sneaky things. Kids end up learning software without file management skills (like at all). This makes it very difficult to leave their apps and if they do itβll be to to 365, maybe iCloud, not libreoffice.
Hit them with an anti-trust suit!
"Oh no, we did our job so incredibly terribly that people are trying new things! And sticking with them! Quick, let's use our wealth to crush the competition!"
Thats a perfectly valid and logical strategy for a business...
I'm more mad that our politicians fall for it and allow an anti-competitve environment, >:(
Oh they didn't fall for it. They personally received perks, I'm convinced.
In my country we call them bribes.
Thatβs capitalism for you baby

As a matter of national security we need to move our digital services to Canadian platforms, or platforms other than Microsoft.
Canadian is good. Open-source would be better.
Microsoft made sure the definition of a "Canadian company" is based on the number of employees in Canada so they qualify for those contracts. No joke. I want to RFP something besides PowerBI and all the little open source shops don't qualify. Microsoft does.
Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will βaccidentallyβ leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.
As they realized in Europe, Microsoft will turn data over to the US govt if requested, so using it on sensitive systems should be seen as a bigger security threat than some video app.
Yup, doesn't matter where the data centres are - a contract is only as trustworthy as the person or company you signed it with. Throwing all your government and medical and everything else docs on somebody else's computer with a "trust me bro" privacy statement seems like a recipe for disaster.
This is the part where you find out if your government officials even know what Linux and Libre are.
They don't.
That's like in that dinosaur movie, right? This is a linux system! Ha ha
It was Unix, but close enough. I doubt most government officials know the difference
I hope our officials are taking notice what Europeans are doing.
Narrator: They didn't notice.
Yes Microslop keep showing me your despair, bleed it out as much as you can and show everyone that you are a parasite we don't need, dew it!
It's alarming what they are lobbying about. But is there an indication in the page specific to Linux or LibreOffice?
I used to love windows. Lots of good games played on it. AOL. Fun other little programs.
They've really taken the soul out of it over the last decade or so. Not sure if it's the CEO or upper management but I main Linux now and I doubt I'd go back even if they improved their base OS.
One of them is just called Bigot?? Figures
While I don't doubt their lobbying includes anti-Linux themes, there was no specific info in OP's link. It looks like they are spamming every branch of government with corporate crap at all times.
hilariously bonkers, especially considering MS has it's own Linux distro now.
It's fedora driven
Is it? that's even more funny somehow. From linux is a cancer to fedora.... what a joke