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It never did,

but the article mentions ONLYOFFICE which seems to have strong connection to Russia, this is what your parent meant

Thats open source self hosted software. If you dont trust the prebuilt binaries you can inspect the source code and build it from source yourself

Thx, I indeed misread that in the article. Sill, it's AGPL v3.0 so if the French are ok with Open Source I guess they could always sever the cord.