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Austria armed forces use Libre Office: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-to-LibreOffice-10660761.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Aust
by arein3 1y ago
Austria armed forces use Libre Office: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-to-LibreOffice-10660761.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-armed-forces-switch-t...
- cm2187 1y ago[flagged]
- stefs 1y agois it really that hard to write a report in LibreOffice instead of word? is that more that we can ask of our military top brass?
- 0points 1y agoDon't fall for the whataboutism trap.
- stefs 1y agoneither my answer nor ops point is whataboutism. they bring up a valid point: libreoffice is (in their opinion) harder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things. in my opinion libre office is absolutely good enough for this use case and thus not taking away significant time from other tasks. furthermore, the austrian armed forces are free to contribute to the project to improve the perceived paint points themselves. on the other hand microsoft products are closed source and probably upload data to datacenters outside the customers (i.e. in this case, the militaries) sphere of influence. this may include the data (for storage and or AI training) and meta data (for advertising and telemetry). microsoft may even silently introduce or reactivate (after they've been declined) those options after updates (don't quote me on this, but i think i remember this happening at least once). microsoft apologists may argue that this is only the case for improperly configured corporate deployments, but as the software is closed source nobody can really be sure and if it's that hard to get right, it's a security problem in itself.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y ago> arder to use and probably lower quality, so reports are harder to write and taking away time from more important things. They almost certainly have templates for their reporting, so its just adding text, figs, and tables. And lower quality how?
- cm2187 1y agoMy point was rather that officers should have better things to do than feed the bureaucracy with reports no one will ever read, and so the harder you make it to write reports, the less likely they will do more of them!
- DaSHacka 1y agoI assure you there are far, far more inefficient things they are doing than using OpenOffice.