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c0l0 • yesterday at 5:36 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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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slazaro • yesterday at 6:01 PM

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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pimeys • yesterday at 6:03 PM

You say tex-deductible I sure think you meant LaTeX-deductible...

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ant6n • yesterday at 7:44 PM

Well, office 365 also includes email (sorta), word (1GB of ram per window), excel, teams (ugh), and shared file storage (kinda works)