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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 6 days ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The Austrian military didn't just adopt LibreOffice; they actually contributed back to it. Over five person-years of development work went into adding features they needed. Those improvements are now available to everyone using LibreOffice, which is pretty cool.

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[-] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 14 points 6 days ago

I get where you're coming from, but Military documents getting out of Microsoft's(USA) reach is absolutely something positive