I needed some good news, so I wrote a blog post about happy things in my professional life as an academic who gets stuff done with FOSS:
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/09/12/dogged-FALD.html
It praises LibreOffice, how easy it is to migrate infrastructure if you work at it, and Zotero!
#FOSSAcademic #goodNews
Robert W. Gehl
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