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Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice (news.itsfoss.com)

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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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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

Why are you posting this? Where in the source code is the spyware?

If you are right, a community fork without the spyware will be started before the end of the day.