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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice (news.itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

because no soldier is an IT literate and 99.9% of those people are used to ms office + every document template (which are many) would be easier to work with.

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