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Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by oleg_antonyan »

NicoJuicy wrote: post #102
mikae1 wrote: post #84

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No, but 4 out of 5 Russians dig[1] their dictator[2]. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/896181/putin-approval-ra... [2] https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9191/pace-committee-examines-th...

Official statistics in Russia don't mean anything anymore unfortunately

Even worse: it's used as propoganda itself, they export this idea of all russians being united against the west bla-bla-bla. While in reality most people just don't want to think about it, and the state does everything to keep the "normality level" acceptable. This may sound unrealistic to the americans who seems to have their political opinion all the time, but russians just don't care, there're even jokes about "not interested in politics", not even if it threatens their lifes

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by walteweiss »

deaddodo wrote: post #101
malermeister wrote: post #95

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_the_Unit... It's an entire category.

When was the last time the US attacked a nation to annex them into their sovereignty? Not in some abstract or vague manner, directly annexing them. Not defending any of the US' wars, but it's a little disingenuous to compare them to the Ukrainian conflict.

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Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by siva7 »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #105
deaddodo wrote: post #101

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When was the last time the US attacked a nation to annex them into their sovereignty? Not in some abstract or vague manner, directly annexing them. Not defending any of the US' wars, but it's a little disingenuous to compare them to the Ukrainian conflict.

>When was the last time the US attacked a nation to annex them into their sovereignty? So invading and bombing other countries is now fine as long as you don't annex them? Good to know that's how far the goalposts have moved.

It makes more sense if you view america as a police officer. An officer would pull sometimes his weapon to prevent bad things from happening but the officer would never take the suspect as his personal slave like russia.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by squarefoot »

ihypopocrite wrote: post #81
raulo wrote: post #67

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Not more than or less than using American or Israeli products.

Motivation plays a role here. I'm not defending in any means what the US, Israel and many other countries have done or are doing to others, but today, as we are writing, Russia is probably more motivated to harm western businesses by hitting common people than the US or Israel or any other country, except maybe China to a much lesser extent.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by KronisLV »

nh2 wrote: post #22
dcsommer wrote: post #10

Anyone have a good comparison between this and LibreOffice?

OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly. When I open my Word docs in LibreOffice, they still look significantly different than in Word after all these years. In OnlyOffice they look exactly like in Word. So it replaced Word-in-Wine for me.

> OnlyOffice seems to be the only FOSS office suite that handles Microsoft Office documents correctly.

I remember also looking at WPS Office for this and it seemed mostly okay to me: https://www.wps.com/office/ (though no source code available, at least it doesn't seem so)

Then again, LibreOffice feels like the most trustworthy option out there for me (and is the default in many Linux distros), so I ended up just using that, any drawbacks and all. Nowadays I use LibreOffice on all my computers and have basically gotten rid of MS Office altogether. If I ever need to send someone something that looks consistent across all devices, there's PDF/A.

I've actually used PDFs for presentations as well with no issues, especially after the inconsistencies of LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint made one of my past presentations look like an utter mess on someone else's computer (fonts/locations were all wrong).

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

blackoil wrote: post #57
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #36

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Totally bollocks. This is pure fud. Nothing else. AGPL DOES NOT restrict ability to be used internally. Agpl does NOT restrict selling software as it is. Agpl does not restrict using agpl software with proprietary software. Only thing that agpl prevent is, IF YOU MODIFY AGPL SOFTWARE, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOURCE CODE TO USERS. Your modifications. Thats it. AGPL DOES NOT MANDATE upstreaming modifications. You can do it or…

With large companies with 100s of partners and contractors what is internal is fluid particularly over the network. So am sure they don't want to use such as a library. Though I am not lawyer/license expert so that fact may be irrelevant more so using it as desktop app. But perception matters, if Goog/MSFT are not using it, a startup also won't risk using them lest some auditor flags it in next round of funding parti…

The software in question is an end product, like microsoft office.

>lest some auditor flags it in next round of funding

i am an auditor and a laywer, so what is there to flag? please enlighten me.

Re: OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

xorcist wrote: post #99
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #36

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Totally bollocks. This is pure fud. Nothing else. AGPL DOES NOT restrict ability to be used internally. Agpl does NOT restrict selling software as it is. Agpl does not restrict using agpl software with proprietary software. Only thing that agpl prevent is, IF YOU MODIFY AGPL SOFTWARE, YOU HAVE TO GIVE SOURCE CODE TO USERS. Your modifications. Thats it. AGPL DOES NOT MANDATE upstreaming modifications. You can do it or…

This is the AGPL, not the GPL. The AGPL may be based on the GPL but it is different, and has nothing to do with the Free Software Foundation. Basically, you if you provide this software as a service to your customers, you are required to let them access the source code and modifications.

>Basically, you if you provide this software as a service to your customers, you are required to let them access the source code and modifications.

the source code of "this" software and any modifications you made. so.... whats the problem?

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