The LibreUmbria blog features a new post today entitled (in English) 5+5 good reasons to adopt LibreOffice. The 10 reasons themselves are split between those for end users (PDF, Italian) and administrators and managers (PDF, Italian).
The post also features a fine graphic setting out 5 of the reasons. These are:
- Quality. When using Office, you will happen to notice that the 2000 version is being officially dropped. This is because there is a new licence to acquire for each update for commercial software. LibreOffice is a product being continuously improved because it is the users who ask the developer community to fix bugs and add and simplify its features. LibreOffice is a product that shall never run out.
- Freedom. LibreOffice is free software not linked to any company in particular. It can be freely used without limits and conditions imposed by user licences. You can install LibreOffice on your home computers, you can give to a friend and download it free of charge from the internet.
- Training. Switching to LibreOffice means being able to take a training course which will teach you all the functions you need to know about.
- Open format. With LibreOffice we use an open format (.odt) instead of .doc. You’ve surely never thought of it, but open formats ensure accessibility in the long term, but above all ensure transparency of the data exchanged; distributing content different from that which you seen on the screen will never happen with .odt.
- Help. When you start working with LibreOffice you can always count on help from a colleague, as well as its large developer community, research centres and companies ready to fix any bugs in the working of the software.
As previously reported, Italy’s Umbria region has a project to migrate 5,000 public sector workers from MS Office to LibreOffice (posts passim).