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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...