Worth it Stage 1
LibreOffice is free and open source, maintained by The Document Foundation, a nonprofit. It saves to the open ODF standard as well as Microsoft formats, so your files are never held hostage. Governments in Germany (2024) and Denmark (2025) have moved to it for exactly that reason. Stage 1.
- Since
- 2011
- Category
- Productivity
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- libreoffice.org
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
100% kept
“LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 2 of 3
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- A2 Nonprofit or community-run
- A3 Open and portable
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy