The Austrian Armed Forces have been preparing for the switch to LibreOffice for a long time. Other LibreOffice users will also benefit from this.
  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Less than two months ago I had a bunch of … almost certainly US or UK folks acting like I was completely insane or didn’t understand the nuances of what switching out of the MSFT ecosystem, how hard that would be for large orgs.

    … And here we are, a bit later, more and more of Europe is correctly realizing that it is not that hard, actually.

    EDIT: For the record, I am former MSFT employee, who also went to work for other places and moved as much of one of those place’s business software over to open source stuff as possible… because we dealt with PII for highly vulnerable indiviudals, and MSFT is very obviously the US Gov’s bitch/willing collaborator, when it comes to data security.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      You’re probably going to see issues crop up in the long term, which is why previous attempts to shift would generally pull people back. I just see these countries more willing to eat the organizational pain from switching. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the response to finding pain points this time is creating a budget for dev time.