Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice

Saving 6 million per year... Hopefully some of the savings go towards funding The Document Foundation. The Austrian savings alone is more than the foundation's entire yearly funding.

(I would argue this is also a somewhat necessary step to take. Libre Office is a massive undertaking to be lauded, but isn't a 5 star product, especially in calc/excel.)

There is a paragraph about that:

> Austria isn't just replacing Microsoft software. Unlike typical public-sector and corporate migrations, Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself. The armed forces have been funding the creation of new features and improvements that are now included in public releases. These additions, ranging from improved slideshow editing to better handling of pivot tables, have been rolled into the latest version of LibreOffice.

Wouldnt be contribute with development? No idea about the Document Foundation but the Mozilla one prefer to waste donation money on CEO bonus and projects that nobody asked for.

Meanwhile the Trump DoD is trying to close all the commissaries bc they're not warfighting enough

“Adaptations and improvements required by the military are programmed and incorporated into the LibreOffice project. More than five man-years have already been paid for this, which can benefit all LibreOffice users.”