It is also based on a completely open file format so that your documents will never become hostage to the vendor. LibreOffice is a next generation version of [[OpenOffice]] which was taken over by Oracle Corporation when they bought out Sun Microsystems (the primary developer of OpenOffice at the time).
Working with remote [https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Data_Sources Data Sources], you can pair the desktop convenience of Calc spreadsheets or Writer form letters with important data that resides in other applications.
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