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What if Munich alone invested $50 million into making LibreOffice better? Wouldn't that be a much better ROI for their investment?

Besides, if they using Excel for finance stuff, they're doing it wrong anyway:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs...

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Not necessarily, one investment buys you the software that meets your needs now, the other is a donation that buys you at most a promise for software that maybe meets your needs sometime in the future.

This assuming they had a need that OSS Office didn't cover, of course.

Don’t disagree, but playing devils advocate, they won’t be on Windows / Office till 2023 per linked article. Five years is a long time in the land of software to resolve promises.

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