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Not only is one German state moving from Microsoft to LibreOffice, but the whole federal government is committing to move to open standards by 2027: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/

Germany committing to ODF and open document standards - The Document Foundation Blog

Digital sovereignty is of vital importance for data freedom. If governments and organisations use proprietary or pseudo-standard formats, they limit the tools that citizens can use to access data. So we’re happy to see that the IT Planning Council in Germany is committing to move to the Open Document Format – a fully standardised format […]

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Petra van Cronenburg 6d ago

@libreoffice That's fine. But let's hope that the new government doesn't pull out ... (the paper is from March, the new government will be installed in May.)

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Bernd 6d ago

@NatureMC @libreoffice Interesting that the paper was published in the interim period after the general elections but before chancellor vote and appointment of new ministers.

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Petra van Cronenburg 6d ago

@hopfgeist This is completely normal: the old government is in office until the new one officially enters the Bundestag. @libreoffice

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Bernd 6d ago

@NatureMC @libreoffice Sure, the old government remains in office until the new one is elected/appointed, but it is still interesting to craft a policy paper when you don't know if the incoming government will honour it. When in fact, you have good reason to suspect that they won't, because they are traditionally rather biassed towards big corporations. Not saying they couldn't or shouldn't do it, but conspicuous timing, nonetheless.

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Petra van Cronenburg

@hopfgeist No, it's normal.
If you only decided things every time that you thought another future government would approve, politics would no longer be possible. Every government utilises its term of office until the last day, especially as steps backwards are often costly and not so easy. It is common practice.

@libreoffice