Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (mostly) for Libreoffice
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Austria's armed forces have largely replaced Microsoft Office with LibreOffice, marking a significant adoption of open-source software in a government institution, with the community generally welcoming the move as a positive step towards open-source adoption.
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It makes a joke of departments claiming to change after reactionary news as we have seen recently and taken at face value on Hacker News who have never done a project evidently.
At 5 years it would be one of the shortest timelines compared to similar projects if they can pull this off. Good luck.
This will obviously cost them a lot of $, but it will be interesting to see if it was to become more popular if it could save money in Austria if expanded.
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