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A comment on "LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying.".

Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by c0l0 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486851)
That reminds me that my yearly donation[0] towards LibreOffice's stewards, The Document Foundation, is coming up in December. It's a wholesome tradition where you wire them the amount of EUR/US$/XYZ that Microsoft demands for a year of a personal Office 365(-ish, eh?) subscription[1] as a tex-deductible donation that will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I hereby invite you to join in! :)

    [0]: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/
    [1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products (DO NOT REDEEM)
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by slazaro on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:01PM (#50487270)
You should contact LibreOffice, explain what you're doing (and for how long you've been doing it), and propose for them to do it as an "official" thing, to have the same subscriptions as 365 but as recurring donations instead. It could be a cool donation campaign for them!
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by stronglikedan on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:47PM (#50487954)
That's a bit too close to begging for me to get the warm and fuzzies by helping.
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by pimeys on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:03PM (#50487297)
You say tex-deductible I sure think you meant LaTeX-deductible...
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by rbr94 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:06PM (#50487337)
One can dream!
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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by readthenotes1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:16PM (#50487494)
Wouldn't LaTex deductible be something like a math proof?

Does that mean you're asking for the donation to be in Lean?

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Re:"LibreOffice works 365 days a year. Just saying." by ant6n on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:44PM (#50488687)
Well, office 365 also includes email (sorta), word (1GB of ram per window), excel, teams (ugh), and shared file storage (kinda works)
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