LibreOffice Wants Spying ('Telemetry') and Weird Review/Overview of Microsoft Word Alternatives
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Community support needed: We want to use our users personal data - LibreOffice Design Team [Ed: LibreOffice to become spyware under the guise of "telemetry"? Like Firefox?]
While our proprietary competitors constantly (mis)use user data to improve the UX of their products, we are maneuvering in thick fog. And whenever we try to reach out to our users to decide about design directions, we mainly get feedback from white, male nerds [1]. You hopefully see the problems this implies.
The only solution is: We need to be able to evaluate usage information from everyone else too. While preserving the privacy of our users of course.
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6 free alternatives to Microsoft Word | TechRepublic [Ed: Terrible list. Most of these are proprietary and Apache OpenOffice is listed before LibreOffice.]
If you're tired of paying for Microsoft Office features you don't use, here are free alternatives to Word you can download and start using today.