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The Austrian military didn't just adopt LibreOffice; they actually contributed back to it. Over five person-years of development work went into adding features they needed. Those improvements are now available to everyone using LibreOffice, which is pretty cool.

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[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

does anybody know why libreoffice and not only office? user experience and ms office compatibilty is way better for onlyoffice at leas from my perspective.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Might be the licensing type.

Might also just be what was/is known at the time to the decision makers. I’m in the IT world and didn’t know/learn about ONLYOFFICE until this past year.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why prioritize MS compatibility?

because no soldier is an IT literate and 99.9% of those people are used to ms office + every document template (which are many) would be easier to work with.