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wolvoleo | 4 days ago

Well, if your goal is to be 100% the same as what Microsoft offer, then sure no there's not. But that's letting them set the goalposts.

If you look at the features you actually need and are willing to explore different ways of doing things that are not exactly like M365 there's more options. France and Germany are also working on freeing themselves from M365.

This kinda thing sounds a lot like those RFPs that were specifically written so they could only be fulfilled by Microsoft because it was just a list of their feature tickboxes.

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KronisLV|4 days ago

> But that's letting them set the goalposts.

This is missed in so, so very many discussions out there.

You can reproduce about 50-75% of what MS offers with FOSS and work on writing the rest in-house/in-EU.

Would a bunch of workflows suffer initially? Sure, but not even trying is just preseving the status quo.

Guestmodinfo|4 days ago

Today I opened a .docx file on libreoffice on my linux machine. Did a whole bunch of editing and sent back the file for some semi official purpose. And the .docx file behaved as usual on the windows machine of the sender. I mean to say for many many people the workflows will not suffer even one but. It's just too much automated people whose work may suffer initially b cause they are using windows API or something like that. But that's like just for developers suffering. Most govt offices or universities just work on individual files and that will never suffer even one bit