[libreoffice-marketing] Re: UK government getting serious about FOSS?

Le 2011-02-22 18:42, Ian Lynch a écrit :
> http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/enterprise-os-how-hard-can-it-be/2011/02/the-government-gets-really-serious-about-open-source/index.htm
>
> Could be good news for libreoffice?

Thanks Ian, I have added this to the "LibreOffice in the Press" wiki page.

Sometimes, these are political jostling for more favourable procurement 
terms. MS may not have provided the UK government terms that were 
palatable for its pocket book. So, the most evident sabre rattling that 
one would do in this case is put into motion the adoption of open source 
software and file formats. I believe, if I remember correctly, this has 
happened before a few years back in the UK. And it worked! Not sure if 
doing a second time will word though. Maybe there were lines drawn in 
the sand and the final decision had to be made.

Hopefully, this time, the UK government has come to realize the clear 
advantages to "open source everything" and that taking steps to move to 
the ODF and ODF compatible software is just good policy.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Cheers

Marc


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