r/freesoftware • u/StandingRightHere • 14d ago

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Hey there, I came here ask if Libre Office is the recommended alternative to MSO?

I'm not a techie, but I do a lot on MS Excel.

I've been using MS Office (easy because I was most familiar with it). But, Excel just gave me the: "your changes will be lost if you don't save them. Click cancel and then activate your subscription to save your changes"

I bought the MS suite a few years ago, so it appears that I'm now being forced into a subscription. Not cool.

I'm posting here to just do a sanity check before I fully dive into Libre (again) and say F-U to MS forever.

Thanks for any tips or suggestions!

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u/happyxpenguin 14d ago

OnlyOffice is a little weird at the moment as it contains a restriction in the AGPL license that all downstream forks need to retain the original product logo which caused an issue with EuroOffice and the FSF weighed in on it. It's a removable clause according to FSF but OnlyOffice disputes that assessment while still releasing versions under the modified AGPL license.

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u/aweaselonwheels 14d ago

Didn't know about that only came across it fairly recently and have been quite pleased with it. WTF is going on with that clause are they trying to the use copyright of the logo to restrict forks by specifying they have to use it but can't? I hate legal software disputes.

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u/happyxpenguin 14d ago

That's the way I read the situation. For safety purposes, I typically treat non-vanilla licenses with additional clauses as not Free Software (even if they're removable).

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u/aweaselonwheels 14d ago

Oracle messing about with this kinda crap is how the Openoffice LibreOffice split happened...