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@a1ba @remixtures A take as of a decade ago trying to use LibreOffice/maybe it was OpenOffice on trailing the bleeding edge Debian (NOTE: FIXED after memory jogged by you as I did to you it would seem):

Because MS Word doesn't suddenly fail to write documents it then can't read? Because its collaboration features are much better? (That's based on an even older version of MS Word; I grant both problems might have gotten better, but the first problem was/is a dangerous trap when you're writing something big and you then have to go into recovery mode including "What did I do to make it fail???).)

A lot of us use computers to get shit down, not to make political statements.

Unfortunately that means a lot of us have or in times past have had to use Windows and Office to work with other people. That said, I'm happy I now can satisfy all my requirements using Linux (ugh) and LibreOffice.

This trick of uploading your Office data for Ai training, completely compromising customer security requirements, though, should cause a reaction like I gather happened with Adobe doing this. But I'd assume a bigger one given how many more people use Office.