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.
While I’m glad to see M$ Office being replaced with LibreOffice, I hope the governments and companies doing so, also channel funds into development.
Great news. Public institutions should never buy or use proprietary software.
Now we can say that Libre Office is combat tested and military grade. Lol
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.
The open source dream!
This is how public money should be spent. Every dollar spent on proprietary code is money wasted. Every dollar spent on public code benefits every other country, org, and individual who runs that software. It reduces the cost for everyone, in perpetuity, instead of enriching some sociopathic technofascist and their oligarch investors.
I wasn’t a big fan of GNU initiatives, and even less of ‘viral licenses’, until I encountered Public Money, Public Code. The more you think about it, the more fucked up it appears to you that governments pay for Windows/365/AWS licenses, using your tax money, because decision makers haven’t got the slightest clue about FLOSS, and if they do, they mostly don’t have the nutsack to implement the sweeping changes that would be necessary to migrate.
In Spain also a lot of administrations and companies use LibreOffice or OpenOffice, saving a lot of money by the way.
Great news.
I want my boss to do this with GIMP. He’d save a lot of money. There’s even a guy living nearby who said he’d work for us to write plugins.
get the fourth reich out of our open source software
It is open for a reason. I am glad of the army helping the open cause.
good
We shouldn’t be celebrating military forces, a branch of the government that is notoriously expensive for tax payers, to use FOSS without giving anything significant back in return.
Check out @themurphy@lemmy.ml 's comment. They did contribute significantly. Also, y’know, it’s in the article and on the post itself…
I get where you’re coming from, but Military documents getting out of Microsoft’s(USA) reach is absolutely something positive
They actually did contribute back into the project, also even if they didn’t it’s still a win because proprietary software should not be used by any part of the government.
no microsoft but the military bases r alright ig cos words not paying them
But capitalism has a copyright on innovations!
does anybody know why libreoffice and not only office? user experience and ms office compatibilty is way better for onlyoffice at leas from my perspective.
Might be the licensing type.
Might also just be what was/is known at the time to the decision makers. I’m in the IT world and didn’t know/learn about ONLYOFFICE until this past year.
