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Home » Supporting freedom and the sustainable use of electronic products in the European Union

Supporting freedom and the sustainable use of electronic products in the European Union

2023-11-17 Mike Saunders

Tabea Rößner, Chair of the Digital Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag

LibreOffice is free (as in freedom) software. And our friends at the Free Software Foundation Europe just handed over an Open Letter “The right to install any software on any device” to the German parliament, to support sustainability and freedom in electronic products in the EU.

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