Not just the US.

Rather strangely when choosing transportation options, people generally don't say "I'll take the subway it's safer", when it very much is.

On the other hand people accept things like "I have a fear of flying" much more easily than "I have a fear of cars".

I think OP's point is that certain government agencies have already transitioned or are in the process of transitioning. As such it would make sense for them to fund LibreOffice, given that they now depend on it.

In my country, the government would have to get something in return (support would be the most obvious channel).

LibreOffice has some obvious disadvantages: it does not have an office in my country, it does not offer support, and it does not lobby the government.

Previous efforts to push more OSS into government were obliterated by right-wing governments. You can guess why.

There has been a 2x and sometimes even 10x in PR size, measured in LoC...

But that's not really what we were promised.

Feeling like a spoiled little kid. FreeCAD and Blender had some really nice updates recently too.

Now just waiting on GIMP!

Unfortunately, Krita doesn't have the same use.

Yes.

OpenOffice, controlled by the Apache Foundation, and LibreOffice, controlled by the Document Foundation. No look in, since both are open source.

For a closed source solution use MS Office or Google docs.

Other open formats are excluded, hence it's a lock in to one specific format. This cripples innovation. For example, you can no longer use an app that uses an open markdown format in the German administration.

One of the slowest, most ineficient code bases I've ever worked on was in Go.

The mentality was "the language is fast, so as long as it compiles we're good"... Yeah that worked out about as well as you'd expect.

But that has nothing to do with the language.

Absolutely, and it's a good language when used properly. This was more of a problem with the hype surrounding it.

Every spring the numbers go up compared to the year before. That's interesting, no?

It's not interesting, it's expected.

Don't know about Spain, but in France we can be sent codes via SMS for things like 3d secure.