Is their suite able to read and write Open Office formats? It would be interesting to have our govt cooperate with either theirs or open office. Alice Apr. 10, 2026 12:39:54 Lucas Fryzek via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>: > Hey, > > Not sure if you guys saw the news (link in french)][1] > > But the french government is trying to move all government departments > from windows to linux with 80k employees from the national health > insurance fund already moved over. They set a deadline for fall of this > year for each department to have a migration plan. > > Really interesting stuff, especially with the "LaSuite numerique" they > been developing to replace office365 and google docs. [2] > > Would love to seen something similar happen in Canada. That way more of > our tax dollars could support open source software and ideally > Canadians working on that open source software instead of sending out > money to big tech in the US. > > Thanks, > Lucas > > - [1] > https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ > - [2] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/