Free office

The Free Office software complex is based on LibreOffice, a freely distributed open source office suite, and also includes a mail client, a Chromium browser with support for GOST cryptography, electronic signature tools, and a root certificate from the Ministry of Digital Development. It is designed to be installed on physical and virtual workstations.

2026: Application for inclusion in the register of domestic software

The company BaseALT has applied for inclusion register of domestic software in the office suite "Free Office," which is part of the company being developed. operating system "Alt" [1] The chairman of the board of directors of Basalt SPO spoke about this in a video interview with TAdviser in January 2026. Alexey Smirnov

One of the requirements for inclusion in the register is that the developer has the exclusive right to the product, to a compound work. In this case, "BASEALT" has it, clarifies Alexey Smirnov, and formally there is compliance with all the requirements of the register. But then the question is asked about how many lines of code the company itself wrote in LibreOffice. There are few of them written, but also in the international kernel of Linux itself, where there is also code from the developers of "BASEALT," its share is small: "Microsoft has made a greater contribution to the kernel than we have." And, given that "the entire budget of the Russian Federation is comparable to the budget of Google, it is basically impossible to write everything here," adds Smirnov.

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There are heated discussions about the application for the inclusion of the "Free Office" in the register of domestic software, said Alexey Smirnov. "MyOffice" and "P7-Office" he calls the main opponents here. If the "Free Office" becomes a "registered" product, then it turns out that customers will not have to buy any office suite separately in order to report on the import substitution of office software, since it will be enough to have it as part of the purchased ALT Linux distribution.

As arguments in the discussion regarding the inclusion of the Free Office in the register in BASEALT, they indicate that their company releases a distribution kit for various hardware platforms, including domestic ones: you can work on x86,, ARM, LoongArch and Elbrus. And Baikale separately distributed office packages may not work with all of the same platforms. "The one who staged" Elbrus, "he won't have a registry office? How to be here?, "- says Alexey Smirnov.

His colleague, adviser to the general director of BASEALT, Alexei Novodvorsky, considers it "stupid" that the office suite should go separately as a registered product so that its import substitution is considered counted when it is reported - just being part of the domestic operating room is not enough for this. This was one of their interests lobbied by the office software developers, Novodvorsky said in a video interview with TAdviser.

Customers need not just an "office product from the registry," but a reliable technological partner for the long term, which has deep expertise and extensive implementation experience, which is able to expand the functionality of its product, develop it according to the client's requests and can guarantee the security of its solutions, as well as quality support, MyOffice's product director told TAdviser Evgeny Babayev in response to a request for comment on BASEALT 's intentions. The company added that MyOffice is not just an office suite, but an ecosystem of secure office solutions. And there are few companies capable of providing a similar level of development and support for a large product line on the market.

R7 and Rostelecom, which at the end of 2025 acquired 25% in BASEALT, could not comment on TAdviser issues related to the application for the inclusion of the Free Office in the register of domestic software.

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