France's homegrown open source online office suite

Post by culi » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

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jmclnx wrote: post #5

Very nice. You (at least I) would not think of France as having a good Open Source presence, but they do. Over the years I have heard of many good Open Source Projects coming out of France. I sometimes wonder if it is because of French vs English Language were you hardly hear of their projects in English speaking Countries.

I think an unsung hero in making open source broadly known and adopted in France is Framasoft [ https://framasoft.org/en/ ], a non-profit association. They have since many many years an initiative to de-google internet and provide free and hosted alternatives and resources.

Post by pyrale » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC

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pyrale wrote: post #142

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> The French state spends 57% of all French That figure is pretty tired. In France, the pension scheme is counted as public spending. In neighbouring countries, the very similar, mandatory, pension schemes count as private. The comparison makes little sense if you don't compare equivalent spending scopes, and equivalent service provided. If health care was to privatized, for instance, I'm pretty sure we would be wors…

> That figure is pretty tired. In France, the pension scheme is counted as public spending. In neighbouring countries, the very similar, mandatory, pension schemes count as private. That "very similar" does a lot of heavy lifting for you. Your neighboring Swiss pillars 2 and 3 and not similar at all - they are neither financial pyramids that depend on population growth, nor are they subject to some arbitrary "points…

Post by Gud » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

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saubeidl wrote: post #147

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Real hackers care about open source software.

Real hackers don't necessarily care about open source software. Closed source offers more low hanging fruit attack vectors.

Post by jayde2767 » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Post by gramie » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

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kuerbel wrote: post #149

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cracks fingers The last sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a post that collapses if poked gently with a stick. "The welfare state cannot exist without exponential population growth." Sounds mathy, but is wrong. Welfare states do not require exponential population growth. They require a sufficient ratio of contributors to dependents, plus productivity. Those are not the same thing. Exponential curves + limit…

"Prosperity itself lowers fertility" This is not true. Women entering the workforce instead of having babies earlier in life lowers prosperity. In our society women working during those early years creates more prosperity (two incomes) but those who are very rich like Musk has no issue producing a big stable of kids.