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1. LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 18:05:51 JST LibreOffice

   Question! Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor? And what happens to citizens' data? A solution is to move to free and open source software like #Linux and #LibreOffice – which is exactly what Schleswig-Holstein is doing: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #privacy

   • LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 19:45:52 JST LibreOffice

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     • Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶

     @catavz A long, long time ago – a lot has changed since then. And many would argue that it didn't succeed for political reasons, rather than technical: https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/

   • Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 (catavz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 19:45:53 JST Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶

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     @libreoffice Hadn't this been tried twice in Munich?

   • Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻 (cloud68@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:22:39 JST Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻

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     @libreoffice excited every time we hear about this kind of news. Also, yeah tax funded infrastructure should be spent for free libre open source software.

   • Number6 :syncthing: (number6@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:48:12 JST Number6 :syncthing:

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     @libreoffice

     Not that I would defend M$, but the cost of the operating system and the software is a fraction of the cost of the machines it runs and and the personnel that use it.

     Retraining thousands of employees to use Open source products might be more expensive than the cost of the operating system & software.

     Then there's the problem that almost always there will be essential software that only runs on MS desktops.

     And then there's hardware compatibility issues.

   • Moritz Mühlenhoff (jmm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 06:39:20 JST Moritz Mühlenhoff

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     @libreoffice Is it known what are planning to deploy? One of the supported enterprise versions mentioned at https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/ or the standard releases commonly found in Linux distros?

   • LibreOffice (libreoffice@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 19:28:40 JST LibreOffice

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     • Hein

     @heind Hi! You can already get these features in LibreOffice by sourcing it from the wider ecosystem: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business/ – But we understand that some people want it in the app directly from The Document Foundation. We (TDF) have very limited resources and focus on the desktop app, but we have some ideas for collaborative features coming up...

   • Hein (heind@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 19:28:41 JST Hein

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     @libreoffice I appreciate the project and taking on MS but it does feel like stepping back in time 15 years when using Libre Office, especially with the lack of real time collaboration functions. There's a nice Arstechnica article about a demo from... 2012 that showcases this.

   • Fred Brooker (fredbrooker@witter.cz)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 19:10:06 JST Fred Brooker

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     • in_sympathy

     @in_sympathy @libreoffice nope

   • in_sympathy (in_sympathy@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jul-2024 19:10:07 JST in_sympathy

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     @libreoffice guys is there any way of collaborating in real time in LibreOffice like with iWork apps over iCloud or with Microsoft 365?