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Germany can afford to fund libreoffice development which will benefit the taxpayer by providing good free alternatives to microsoft products. I also dont think
by helloimhonk 3y ago
Germany can afford to fund libreoffice development which will benefit the taxpayer by providing good free alternatives to microsoft products.
I also dont think any tax payer is concerned about the cost of a document being formatted differently.
- prmoustache 3y agoAnd I don't buy the argument that a document not being formated correctly is costly. People mostly don't care and when real administrative stuff needs to be shared it is done via pdf forms where the output is controlled.
- trelane 3y agoIt matters when there One Dominant Vendor. In that case, when format errors and other small errors arise, the reaction depends. If it's the dominant vendor's software, then the user considers the other either normal or in their end. If the errors arise while using another software package, though, it's the fault of the "cut-rate, knock-off" software.
- mminer237 3y agoTrying to collaborate and send revisions to each other is a nightmare when you are using different programs. You spend way more time fixing the nth mangling or redoing the other's changes in your copy than you do actually getting work done.
- coffeeling 3y agoThus probably why they said LibreOffice would be compulsory.