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how are these 'libre' alternatives? (libre being typically used to disambiguate free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-freedom in the english speaking OSS world)
by cat199 7y ago
how are these 'libre' alternatives?
(libre being typically used to disambiguate free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-freedom in the english speaking OSS world)
- mc32 7y agoWhat I’m saying is that there are alternatives for some traditional desktop apps. There are few alternatives for the big SaaS productivity apps most users use.
- pm7 7y agoNextcloud?
- megous 7y agoThere are alternatives for pretty much anything these days.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNo good ones when somebody suddenly pulls the plug on you, because you lose access to all your data and the network - both of which SaaS companies control in order to justify recurring payments.
- megous 7y agoThe people still have some time to get their data, in this case. Also, people need to realize they don't own data that's not stored on their HW. Cloud is at best a convenience, but I wouldn't trust it to make it so that it's the only place, where my data are stored. You need to keep control of your data if you want choice in SW.
- m4rtink 7y agoKrita, Inkscape & Libreoffice suite I guess ? Also Texlive for publishing.