Euro-Office to challenge Microsoft in Europe ?

[How bad boy]

Not just economic benefits but also political. That's one less piece of leverage external actors have on us.

And the OSS doesn't need to match Office, it just needs to be good enough for the requirements.

Exactly.

I think the same with AI. Does Ireland need the absolute 100% frontier AI? Nope. If you're building production workloads dependent on GPT-6 that's just been released, you're not really doing anything serious.