FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 10, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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   Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source: The EU is slowly but surely going open source. Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options.

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   Collabora Office 26.04 Takes On Open Source’s Office Disrupter Wannabes: We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office.

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   In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository: A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.

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   How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken: Proprietary formats, rendering choices, and font restrictions don’t just create interoperability failures, they make open alternatives appear unreliable and keep institutions locked in.

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   Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks: The only elephant in the room isn’t in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT — meaning every enterprise on the planet these days — there’s an elephant in every server and in every data center.