The Economist schreibt, dass es wenige echte Alternativen zu Big Tech gibt. Als besonders schmerzhaftes Beispiel werden die fehlenden KI-Funktionen in LibreOffice herausgestellt:

LibreOffice, the open-source productivity-software package for which many governments are opting, lacks the AI features offered by Microsoft—a weakness that will only become more pronounced as the technology advances.

Wenn das die größte Schwäche ist, die dem Economist einfällt, dann sind wir weiter als ich dachte.

Weiterlesen bei The Economist (Paywall): America Inc has a tight grip on allied governments.

#OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität #LibreOffice

What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: https://youtu.be/9M468Krlawo

#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom

LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #1 – Marketing Free Software

Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software...

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I had a sudden "what if…?" intuition for a potential #productivity speedup in my #opensource bug reporting workflow when tables of data are involved, and… it turns out that it is actually possible.

As you can see in this short demonstration I recorded below, you can paste #LibreOffice #spreadsheet cells into a #GitLab ticket, and it automatically converts it to a proper #MarkDown table. It just works! What is this sorcery!? 🤯 What a time to be alive.