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"Open source" has absolutely nothing to do with GP's concerns. For an example why the concern has merit: Chromium is open source, yet it still routes every single thing you type into the Omnibox through Google's servers, even if you abandon the search and delete what you typed before pressing "Enter".

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It has everything to do with that, because we can see the source and see whether it does anything like that, and build it from source ourselves.

And again, a project being open source doesn't prevent the parent company from siphoning your data, all it does is (usually but not always) shed light on such practices.

A few years ago there was a scandal where Chromium was downloading an encrypted payload at build time, this was discovered by the Debian package maintainer for Chromium, and it was only found during the build. Open source isn't a panacea to ward off all evil.

Where is Google Sheets source?

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ [edit] Plus https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/

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