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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by namdnay on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:29AM (#29267264)
3) Excel macros and VBscript
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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by go_elmo on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:42AM (#29267448)
*aka cancer / high burden to switch systems to [insert any turing-complete language]
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Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:53PM (#29269018)
4) distribution madness

5) lack of userland backwards compatibility

6) poor commercial application support...

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