Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: Independent, sustainable, secure: Schleswig-Holstein will […]
I like LibreOffice, but, as security is their concern, they should ask themselves if they really need software solutions with such huge complexity. Libre also has had to maintain compatibility with MS Office, which is a huge mess on its own. Such complexity makes it harder to analyze the security and block malicious attacks.
In any case, they need to hire a large testing team for the community, because anything can go wrong without testing.
I like LibreOffice, but, as security is their concern, they should ask themselves if they really need software solutions with such huge complexity. Libre also has had to maintain compatibility with MS Office, which is a huge mess on its own. Such complexity makes it harder to analyze the security and block malicious attacks.
In any case, they need to hire a large testing team for the community, because anything can go wrong without testing.