Libre office doesn’t offer you sharing and interactivity with role and user based access, pii and phi scanning, on top on the idp they offer you that can be used in just about any compliance situation.
Nobody is paying for just the notepad editor. They just don’t have to deal with any security whatsoever.
Word has long since become a low value comodity. Why pay at all when Libre Office does everything well for free.
Thanks to US enshittification, governments and corporations around the world are de-americanizing their tech stacks. FOSS for the win.
Microsoft will eat dirty ass.
Libre office doesn’t offer you sharing and interactivity with role and user based access, pii and phi scanning, on top on the idp they offer you that can be used in just about any compliance situation.
Nobody is paying for just the notepad editor. They just don’t have to deal with any security whatsoever.
Libre office does offer sharing, and RBAC can be handled at the storage level.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/shared_spreadsheet.html
There are other tools for PII and PHI scanning and this is part of foundry, not Office. You pay more for that.
Oh, so it’s more expensive for less features. MS is so cooked.