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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Thu Aug 18, 2016, 06:13 AM Aug 2016

Lithuanian Police Switches To LibreOffice, Saves A Million Euro

The Lithuanian police force has switched to Free and Open Source office suite LibreOffice. LibreOffice will be replacing proprietary productivity suite on over 8000 workstations. This migration was completed in the month of June.

This is not the only implementation, Lithuanian police department is also testing the use of Ubuntu Linux to replace Microsoft Windows.

Open Source adoption is a growing trend in Europe and several European government departments have switched to the free and open source alternatives in recent years, mainly in order to save money in licensing costs.

Saving money is the main motive of Lithuanian Police as well. This switch to LibreOffice will save 1 million euro.

https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice

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LibreOffice is my choice (for over a year now) and I LOVE IT!!! NurseJackie Jun 2020 #1

NurseJackie

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1. LibreOffice is my choice (for over a year now) and I LOVE IT!!!

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Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:34 AM

Jun 2020

After being "forced" to upgrade to Windows 10 (ie: a new pc) it was discouraging that my old (really old) Microsoft Office XP would not work properly install and/or work easily. I refused to upgrade MS Office, and my son and husband recommended and installed LibreOffice for me instead.

It's free and it does everything I need it to do.

Some things are different, but the layout and mostly everything else is familiar an in easy to find locations. All my old documents import beautifully. The spreadsheet (for taxes and budgeting) that I use most often needed some tweaking with columns and font-size... but that's okay... it still worked.

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