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.
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.
The open source dream!
This is how public money should be spent. Every dollar spent on proprietary code is money wasted. Every dollar spent on public code benefits every other country, org, and individual who runs that software. It reduces the cost for everyone, in perpetuity, instead of enriching some sociopathic technofascist and their oligarch investors.
I wasn’t a big fan of GNU initiatives, and even less of ‘viral licenses’, until I encountered Public Money, Public Code. The more you think about it, the more fucked up it appears to you that governments pay for Windows/365/AWS licenses, using your tax money, because decision makers haven’t got the slightest clue about FLOSS, and if they do, they mostly don’t have the nutsack to implement the sweeping changes that would be necessary to migrate.
But capitalism has a copyright on innovations!
good
In Spain also a lot of administrations and companies use LibreOffice or OpenOffice, saving a lot of money by the way.
Great news. Public institutions should never buy or use proprietary software.
no microsoft but the military bases r alright ig cos words not paying them
libre office is spyware
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.
It is?
While I’m glad to see M$ Office being replaced with LibreOffice, I hope the governments and companies doing so, also channel funds into development.
I’d assume they would probably hire a few developers to get the things they specifically need into the software.
My fear is they will decide, at some point, to toss the GPL in the toilet because of “national security.”
This seems not just written by an Llm; it slops like one
get the fourth reich out of our open source software
It is open for a reason. I am glad of the army helping the open cause.
of courSSe you are
Great news.
I want my boss to do this with GIMP. He’d save a lot of money. There’s even a guy living nearby who said he’d work for us to write plugins.
Well, Gimp is great, but still lacks some features for the professional user, eg a good RAW support, it can substitute PS if you also use Krita to fill the holes Gimp still has-
You’re right that Photoshop has features incorporated into it which GIMP doesn’t. It’s worth remembering though that although GIMP follows the unix philosophy of not trying to do everything it does do a lot to interoperate with other software. For example, if I want to open a RAW file directly from GIMP, it launches Rawtherapee or Darktable for me, which processes the file and then opens it in GIMP, much the same as an Adobe workflow but more visibly two separate programs working together. And of course there are G’MIC, Batcher and Resynthsizer but they do need to be installed manually as plugins, which is not ideal for newcomers.
I think a big game-changer for some users is going to be the upcoming release of ‘Link Layers’. You’ll be able to have a layer in your GIMP project which is linked to an external file. So for example you could have a layer in your GIMP project which you are editing Krita.
I’m sure a lot will depend on what you’re working on but in my workplace the only thing really holding us back from switching to GIMP is setting correct scaling and position for printing on rolls on Windows 11. If I could get my boss to switch to Linux (probably even more amibitious) we would be done with Adobe.
Curiosity apart, the intelligent object removing in PS is also based on the Resynthesize, which is a invention from GIMP. It it used now also by other editors, even in online versions, like eg.Lunapic, there called “Remove and inpaint” in the seleccion tool.
We shouldn’t be celebrating military forces, a branch of the government that is notoriously expensive for tax payers, to use FOSS without giving anything significant back in return.
Check out @[email protected] 's comment. They did contribute significantly.
They contributed code that they needed, that is not giving back. I am speaking about actual long-term maintenance and/or money, which isn’t mentioned anywhere.
See, the problem with these code contributions is that they are just that: One time effort. In most cases, this code will be handed over to the core maintainers, who will then have to deal with it for the rest of the project’s lifecycle. There are many documented instances in which FOSS projects are actually suffering because of contributions like this, as they are struggling to maintain the added features long term.
But all the people downvoting this care about is that a public money drain like the military writes some code and throws it into the faces of FOSS developers, even completely disregarding whether these improvements are actually relevant for the everyday user of the software. And again, by contributing I am referring to actually funding the project with significant amounts. We are speaking of a public entity that spends multiple millions on a single fighter jet.
They actually did contribute back into the project, also even if they didn’t it’s still a win because proprietary software should not be used by any part of the government.
I get where you’re coming from, but Military documents getting out of Microsoft’s(USA) reach is absolutely something positive
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.
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.
Why prioritize MS compatibility?
Now we can say that Libre Office is combat tested and military grade. Lol
They should give OnlyOffice a try too
