09-29-2024, 07:35 PM
(09-29-2024, 05:09 PM)davew9804 Wrote: I have used Libre Office for the past few years and find it works fine. Took a bit of adjusting at first but now it works fine.
Of course. After all these years of advocating Open Source software, I've always promoted Libre Office, and its predecessors. But for a while, I ran into a lot of resistance, particularly in my tech support ministry. Such advocacy struck them as annoying hucksterism. It became a necessity to meet people where they were, and it was all about standardized business-class software -- Windows and Office. If I didn't work with them, I had no work at all.
Now, here I am facing a different kind of hassle altogether: I'm at risk of being silenced by the government for one reason, and censored by MS and other Big Tech providers for other reasons. I have few choices left. If I am going to be faithful to my primary calling, it won't matter what is mainstream. Mainstream becomes the primary path of vulnerability to that censorship. I'm no longer any kind of Open Source advocate; I'm a security advocate.