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LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
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You arrive in a city you have never visited before. You are tired. You find your room, open your suitcase, pull out a charger, and plug it into the wall. The small green light comes on. You think nothing of it, because nothing happened. You moved between two countries, two

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