I think we might actually remove the entire section. Most of these recommendations are “legacy recommendations”.
There’s nothing really privacy conscientious about these recommendations (none of them support E2EE for instance). We allow things like Microsoft Office for example to be mentioned because of MDAG, that recommendation in itself we were looking at moving to the Windows guide.
In the case of LibreOffice, does it even need recommending? Most Linux distributions aimed at the desktop market include that (Ubuntu, Fedora etc).
What I do want to make clear though, is we wouldn’t be removing it, because “some of the developers are Russian”. I don’t think critiquing software based on the nationality of the developers is really all that helpful.
Also I would say that this forum is probably a better venue for such discussion/debate. Reddit tend to encourage very tribal political comments which go off the rails quite quickly. I suspect that might be the reason /r/privacy removed it.