Enjoy not being able to use your bank, major websites, email, online shopping, pay utility bills, do basic and required civic functions online (that require alternatives of driving long distances and/or waiting on the phone for long periods of time), etc because your open source operating system doesn’t pass the attestation check.

Maybe not long after Google, Cloudflare and others will just block you behind anti-bot defenses because you don’t pass such a check and only bots would not pass such a check.

Hiding on Linux is not a solution to a legal problem. It’s at best punting.

This stuff is either defeated or you’ll enjoy living as a hermit cut off from society with your perfectly private, perfectly offline computer.

Same. And LO cannot do everything MS office does.

It can do major things and Writer is probably 98% there (Calc much lower) but as an example of an obscure feature: Word can do nested tables and last I checked LO cannot. As a major feature Calc cannot do proper tables with headers and sorting and the opinion of the devs is to just use a database which for large sets is fair enough but I semi-often work with smaller sets where it doesn’t make sense and I just need a quick CSV sort. I have also tried to convince not so computer literate people to switch to LO and some of them have missed the proper tables support and telling them to learn to use databases isn’t an acceptable solution as many of these people are older and their needs are things like finances or lists of their collections of stuff.

Word’s styling options are also just leagues ahead if you’re preparing documents for the office it’s just easier to get better looking results. Same with Powerpoint.

Well could be these companies are buying on fascism because they’re either run by fascists or being shaken down by fascists or their friends are fascists encouraging them to do this and they uncritically do so for some vague or not so vague promises. So it’s more a signal of obedience and doubling down on the move to open, naked reaction and taking over open source with fascism.

That or its an intelligence op and the fascism is a bonus but the guy behind it is just pliable or a useful tool and there are larger plans to use this as a vehicle for influence to control open source, insert back-doors, push CIA coder guys into the right positions, steer in anti-China stuff to carve up the world of open source into strictly divided western and non-western code, remove openness and cooperation and militarize the space for American use.

Either way not good as functionally this is a big money pot being created and centralized under reactionary control to bully open source into adopting reactionary politics and other not good things. Could be Linux is seen as increasingly a threat with the open spying on Microsoft driving enough of the public to Linux that corporations, governments, etc feel a need now to seize control of it.