“Oh no, we did our job so incredibly terribly that people are trying new things! And sticking with them! Quick, let’s use our wealth to crush the competition!”
Thats a perfectly valid and logical strategy for a business…
I’m more mad that our politicians fall for it and allow an anti-competitve environment, >:(
Oh they didn’t fall for it. They personally received perks, I’m convinced.
In my country we call them bribes.
That’s capitalism for you baby
Ah yes because they fear losing the ability to charge annual and monthly subscriptions for their spyware. And no MSFT for the 30th time I don’t want to try Copilot just like I didn’t want to deal with that ho Cortana you pimped out before.
Clippy, did they not learn their lesson in 95?
I to remember him.
They are clueless, aren’t they?
Not to mention that it feels like Microslop only makes Copilot vibecoded slopware.
My favorite was when I spent a few hours disabling all their shit and an update brought it all back.
I hope our officials are taking notice what Europeans are doing.
Narrator: They didn’t notice.
It’s alarming what they are lobbying about. But is there an indication in the page specific to Linux or LibreOffice?
Remember when the world wasn’t fucked up and Microsoft got spanked just for including IE in the OS? Look at the shit these fucks get away with now.
I remember when microsoft office 365 was a thing for college students and the free version that everyone used had 80% access to the programs with, “some features,” grayed out in drop down menus.
“Our monopoly is providing so little value for consumers that they’ve started to make the products for themselves!”
Have they tried making a product that isn’t shit?
The sad part is, I think they have…
Has Libreoffice or Linux profitted off of Genocide like Microsoft has? No? Why are you using Microsoft then?
The thing is, if this meant anything it would’ve shut down LibreOffice years ago. It’s not illegal to be in the likeness of something. Look at Fender Bass Guitars and Sadowsky Bass Guitars. Sadowsky is in the likeness of Fender and they’re indirect competition. The difference is, is that Fender isn’t a baby about it.
Microslop is just fucking butthurt that people don’t want to pay to read documents.
I want to also add, if it were illegal to be off brand and have the same function, there wouldn’t be store brands. They’re losing money, big shit, they’re the name brand, they’ll recoup their losses.
While I don’t doubt their lobbying includes anti-Linux themes, there was no specific info in OP’s link. It looks like they are spamming every branch of government with corporate crap at all times.
Lmfao Save the installation file while you can. I love LibreOffice. Shit’s saved me so much time and money. Not gonna lie it’s fucking scummy to begin with to lock the main document reading program of the operating system itself and forcing users to pay an annual service fee while the program itself runs like total shit and notoriously has ran like shit since XP. That’s 6 major OS changes later and it’s still shit. 24 years later since microsoft office became shit and … it’s still shit
LibreOffice, is what Microsoft Office should be and they hate it. 🖕 microsoft
hilariously bonkers, especially considering MS has it’s own Linux distro now.
It’s fedora driven
Is it? that’s even more funny somehow. From linux is a cancer to fedora… what a joke
Well to be faire Cracking both Office and Windows is easy as F so meh. Let the capitalists lobby, we’ve got bigger problems
