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LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago (13 children)

The headline doesn't match the article, but indeed onlyoffice it's not real open source.

In my language onlyoffice has several typos. Went to GitHub to submit a PR and... there are no translations to translate.

I open an issue and they tell me to send the fixes to someone by email. I send them, they are ignored and 5 years later it's still with the annoying typos.

This is a program where they pretend to be open only for marketing but they aren't actually open

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)

that's why you should use LibreOffice

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I use OnlyOffice for PDFs since it can set a default zoom level. LibreOffice can't, which it just stupid.

I use LibreOffice for other stuff though.

[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you can get a dedicated PDF viewer. I use my system PDF viewer and it works better than Adobe PDF I have been using for ages. This one actually makes reading PDFs bearable in the dark

[–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Even your web browser is a decent PDF reader. Also LibreOffice Draw shows PDF pretty well and you can also edit it to some extent.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Understood. I need to be able to add text and draw slaps shapes etc on PDFs.

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