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My god the amount of projection in your comment. It seems you've mistaken me for everyone who ever commented in favor of migrating off of Excel.

I"m aware that there are things I'm unaware of. Perhaps I don't know how to use Excel, I'm "no true Excel user" if you will, and therefore my opinion is invalid. Like you I'm baffled not by the technical side of things but by our reaction to it. People say "it powers 10% of the world's economy" but not "and it's a problem".

It's a problem. My point is not that LO is better, it's that we should work to remove our dependency on closed-source software for universal office work. Governments should be doing that. But no, let's just say "the other one sucks" and continue to act like depending on a single for-profit company for all our economies is a good thing.

Not sure how my other comment relates to this. Is it arrogant to have preferences?



Your other comment related because it shows the amount of projection in my comment was just the right amount.

> "Is it arrogant to have preferences?"

No, it's arrogant to not know what people are doing but still tell people that you know better what tools would be good to do what they are doing.

> "My point is not that LO is better, it's that we should work to remove our dependency on closed-source software for universal office work"

If that is what you had said, I wouldn't have replied.




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