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0 pointsV-23y ago0 comments

True, because their descriptions literally contain the words "Office" and "Docs".

But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for.

And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop".

"Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Brave Browser" - because the description happens to mention that the browser works on Windows.

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V-2OP3y ago

I don't want to sound mean, but it really looks like no effort has gone into matching the open source projects with their proprietary equivalents (that they're suggested to replace). And that makes its name essentially misleading. Given the above, the website doesn't appear to be much more than a glorified data dump of open-source projects in general, possibly trying to exploit the "I see open source, I upvote" knee-jerk reaction.

HKH23y ago

Yeah it does seem a bit rushed.

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