> I honestly wonder if there is actually going to be any cost savings, once training and the friction of converting existing work-flows over from MS Office to L

> I honestly wonder if there is actually going to be any cost savings, once training and the friction of converting existing work-flows over from MS Office to LibreOffice are taken into account. Sure, if you only care about quarterly costs, this is far more expensive. Luckily it seems they are not so short-sighted. Of course it's going to be costly to switch. That's a key part of proprietary software strategy. But in the long run, the lower costs will far outweigh that initial cost. And furthermore, if many governments switch to and fund free software, it should be easy for free software to surpass proprietary software, and do so at a lower cost. Government switching to free software has implications that go far beyond cost-savings. There are features money can't buy: proprietary software is so frequently backdoored that it's safe to assume it's all backdoored, and that security risk is huge for governments. And putting government documents in a non-proprietary file format allows accessibility, which is a key responsibility of governments serving their citizens.