• acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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        11 hours ago

        Is there any evidence of any wrongdoing or are we just considering all open source software from Russia a bad actor by default?

        • zonnewin@feddit.nl
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          4 hours ago

          Yes, there is evidence. Did you read the linked post?

          I wouldn’t have any problems with it if it were just free open source software. But they also offer paid services. Internationally they do that through their Latvian based subsidiary, obfuscating their origin. At home in Russia their suite is renamed R7-Office, which is a reference to the first ICBM with a nuclear warhead. The release imagery also depicts the release of a rocket that looks like the R-7.

          Altogether pretty sus, if you ask me.

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        5 days ago

        Fuck :( Didn’t know that… I got convinced by the company being supposedly Latvian.

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          4 days ago

          It is Latvian. It’s also Russian. It’s also Singaporean. It just depends on who you ask and how much you want to look into it.

          But yeah, that’s a large part of why I use Collabora instead of OnlyOffice, it’s just a lot less sketchy.