Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude announced yesterday that they are move away from Microsoft Office, towards open source softwares like LibreOffice suites. UK has spent about ..200 million in the last three years for Microsoft’s ubiquitous software suite, but now this migration will save large revenue of the kingdom. Open source software is available for free, not only you can read the source code of the product you are going to use, but also you can built executable from that as well. Mozilla also recommends using open source technology.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/uk-government-planning-to-ditch.html