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Denmark has abandoned plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problems (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 181 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora's suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora's performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

So it was a performance more or less, without any plan to actually switch.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    When elections took place could mean someone that won was pro America or Microsoft

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  • [–] 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    There was no real change of power, Denmark is still ruled by their xenophobic self-declared social democrats busy teaming up with Italian post-fascists to undermine international rule of law. While there is little meaningful difference between Mette Fredriksen and Georgia Meloni she's pretty much as left as Danish politics goes, the only parties left of this mess (the Ø and Å lists, not kidding) are marginal and have never had real power.

    Traditionally Denmark has had no political line for themselves, and have followed America completely. They are completely new to trying to think original thoughts in terms of foreign policy, and we should expect to see them stumble a bit. I guess it's refreshing to see them pretend to try.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Kind of hard words like xenophobic, fascist for parties democratically voted for by the majority of voters.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago*

    Georgia Meloni represents Fratelli d'Italia, the successor party of the Alleanza Nazionale, which in turn is the successor of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which was Mussolini's party. The succession is direct enough that Fratelli d'Italia still uses the same logo as MSI; a tricolor flame.

    See if you can spot the similarity:

    If anything I was being generous to Georgia Meloni by referring to her party as post-fascist rather than straight out fascist. There is a clear continuation here. This is not a matter of opinion.

    As for the Social Democrats in Denmark being xenophobic, there's ample evidence. The fact that they would introduce ghetto laws to get rid of immigrant neighbourhoods - and even call them ghetto laws themselves - is one interesting high-profile example.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    It is kinda true though, we just call it something else. And fascism is on the rise here, along with xenophobia. We were always among the first to join the USA in wars while suppressing any questions from critics in the process.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    It specifically says that performance wasn’t benchmarked.

    The root cause is incompatibility with Microsoft’s proprietary document format causing fuckiness for LibreOffice based Collabora. E.g. formatting issues.

    They could’ve tried the Russian alternative but I guess they’d prefer to gargle Microsoft’s fetid cock some more.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Doesnt Office export to .odt too? Was any IT savy person involved in this?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    It does export to odt, but it still messes up document formatting. Of course this is a solvable issue from a technical perspective, but it's still a lot of man hours to do so for every single document and template across an entire government.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The format isn't the problem; the rules for rendering content outside the PDF are more suggestions.

    And honestly, even if the rules were adhered to, there's no way in F that Microsoft would comply just for this very reason

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    the Russian alternative

    You say that like it's not simply swapping which one you have in your mouth.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    It isn't the same thing, no. The Russian alternative got forked by some EU corporation and relabeled to Euro Office. Further, it's FOSS, so it can be truly independently audited unlike Microslop's garbage.

    I will urge LibreOffice/Collabora any day. I don't really care for the Russian BS suite because it still adheres to Microsoft's proprietary "open" document standards, and so long as you use that bullshit you'll never own your own documents. You'll always be beholden to their garbage one way or another.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora’s performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.

    So it was a performance more or less, without any plan to actually switch.

    Nope. There's was no evaluation. No reason to assume this.

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