THERE IS NO OPEN/LIBRE OFFICE WITHOUT CHINA
sometime in the aughts the Chinese government started investing in open source software development. it was right about the time the first Lula administration in Brazil told Microsoft and Bill Gates to go fuck themselves.
actually, THE MICROSOFT INCIDENT IS WHY BRICS EXISTS. had it not been for Brazil and China seeing Microsoft as symbol of a new gringo colonialist expansion, the trading block wouldn't exist… 🧵