• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m not a fan of people applying nationalism to open source software. I get this is a reaction to another country’s nationalism but it really undermines what open source software is all about.

    Yea, The Document Foundation is based in Germany. But Libre Office is an international collaborative open source project, with contributors in many countries.

    Open source projects dont have a nationality. Even the ones with organisations based in the USA. And if people really are concerned about US based legal orgs then we should be looking at forking the software.

    Its already under open source licences and belongs to everyone regardless of nationality.

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      7 hours ago

      I’ll say, I feel this. I love FOSS, and I love the BuyEuropean movement as well, but I’m also always scared this will turn nationalistic, which I’m not a big fan of…

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        5 hours ago

        Precisely my feelings. I hope it doesn’t turn out to in the negative way, but I’m afraid of some of the vitriol I’m seeing already

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      7 hours ago

      Uuuh this is about closed source Microsoft Office Vs open source Libre Office which just happen to be from Germany and thus is the reason why this is posted in this community.