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Denmark's Digital Liberation - A Historic Victory for Open Source Advocacy


by Edwin Liava'a June 13th, 2025

After more than a decade of advocacy, capacity building, and persistent evangelism for open source alternatives, a nation has finally taken the bold step that many of us have been championing since the early 2010s.

The moment we've been waiting for has finally arrived.

After more than a decade of advocacy, capacity building, and persistent evangelism for open source alternatives, a nation has finally taken the bold step that many of us have been championing since the early 2010s.

Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, with the entire Ministry of Digitalization expected to be Microsoft Windows free by fall 2025.

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