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What if Munich alone invested $50 million into making LibreOffice better? Wouldn't that be a much better ROI for their investment? Besides, if they using Excel
by mtgx 9y ago
What if Munich alone invested $50 million into making LibreOffice better? Wouldn't that be a much better ROI for their investment?
Besides, if they using Excel for finance stuff, they're doing it wrong anyway:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs-tell-staffs-1511346601 https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs...
- extrememacaroni 9y agoNot necessarily, one investment buys you the software that meets your needs now, the other is a donation that buys you at most a promise for software that maybe meets your needs sometime in the future. This assuming they had a need that OSS Office didn't cover, of course.
- jsjohnst 9y agoDon’t disagree, but playing devils advocate, they won’t be on Windows / Office till 2023 per linked article. Five years is a long time in the land of software to resolve promises.