Austria's armed forces switch to LibreOffice : opensource

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 31 points 3 days ago

Well it certainly didn't make sense to run your military infra on US proprietary software.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago

I suppose this is a move to become independent from USAmerican technology. Which makes sense, considering Trump's unpredictability. But it's still a good move anyways, independent of Trump, they should do it anyways.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago

Similarly in France the "Gendarmerie nationale", a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using "GendBuntu" on all their desktop since 2008.

It's a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I just switched the other day after Microsoft emailed me reminding me that my subscription ends in a month.

Then I cancelled right away and got $15 back.

After they offered me "AI free office" for like $40 less which I didn't even want in the first place.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Be interested to know how they migrated Excel accurately. That's the killer app for Office and what makes migration difficult.

[+] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world -24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Austrian armed forces forgot they were supposed to be outside doing army guy shit.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Austria is a neutral country, its military mostly provides disaster relief and humanitarian aid

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

And you think they don't need to have internal documents or spreadsheets or presentations and use computers for those?

(They definitely have at least presentations. They showed some of them to me around my 18th birthday when I had to show up at a military base to be examined for military fitness.)

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sometimes your joke lands, sometimes it slaps the street like a turd from the an 8th floor balcony.

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's just not a joke at all

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago

You're the Trump of humor.

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