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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Update. "#Austria's military has switched from #MicrosoftOffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/

#OpenSource #Privacy #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics

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This European military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice - here's why

It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason.
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@144mb@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@petersuber

Holy year of GNU/Linux on the desktop, Batman!

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yunchtime
@yunchtime@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@petersuber

good move! MS is p8wned 4ever.

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Not trying hard enough 🛸
@lonelystone@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@petersuber
> Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself.

It's buggy as hell. So they don't have much choice. Maybe they will succeed in getting a free replacement for MS office that works. 🛸

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John Carlos Baez
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@petersuber - excellent. I use LibreOffice.

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Janus
@Janus@x0r.be replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@petersuber i wish there was a wikipedia article for all these migrations . half of them get undone , and it's hard to see the differences and compare e.g. LiMux , the introduction of linux to Munich , with this

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AdventureTense
@adventure_tense@mapstodon.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@petersuber Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

I do hope that when these organizations migrate to LibreOffice (which is fantastic), that they still maintain a reasonable budget for funding FOSS donations.

16,000 new users are going to submit more bug reports, and more feature requests, and without additional resources, the LibreOffice team may struggle to keep up. :-)

#FOSS #OpenSource #NotFreeBeer #LibreOffice

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