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Re: Open Source: This Is Not How It Works

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Subject Re: Open Source: This Is Not How It Works
Date 3 Apr 2026 06:17:38 GMT
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 21:36:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> The Europeans want to create their own open-source office suite, to get
> away from the whims of some US-based proprietary company -- a
> commendable goal. They are using the OnlyOffice source code as their
> starting point --
> maybe not so commendable.

It seems a good deal of the OnlyOffice code has comments in Russian from 
the Latvian based Russians who worked on it. Oh, dear, out of the frying 
pan...

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Open Source: This Is Not How It Works Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-02 21:36 +0000
  Re: Open Source: This Is Not How It Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-03 06:17 +0000
  Re: Open Source: This Is Not How It Works Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-03 09:41 +0100

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