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*hearing in comments certains parts aren't foss

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[–] EarthlingHazard@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's better to link to their github since the website has references to a premium sister project that isn't FOSS: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

I haven't used this myself but I'm curious if anyone likes it

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My foss alternative was an English class

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

With happy ending?

[–] gelberhut@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Usually not foss and rather expensive.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not really. There's even English classes in remote Africa. It's FOSS because textbooks and dictionaries exist.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dunno where you live where textbooks are free and not proprietary.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're not free, they're accessable.

[–] rogrodre@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good bit, spelling accessible wrong was the cherry

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Were you trying to make a point or just gave up, because I've literally never seen anywhere without free education. Unless you're talking about higher education which isn't being discussed here.

[–] rogrodre@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago

Ah, you took the bit too far, brevity etc. 6/10

[–] Skimmer@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their extension isn't open source anymore, see here, so I don't recommend it personally, especially with how sensitive the data it collects is, its basically a keylogger, so trust is super important imo.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they don't trust you with the source, you can trust them with your data.