Re: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House

Hi :)
There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US 
slavishly.  It's not "the" government, it's just "a" government.  


Many other countries push OpenSource or at least non-MS, sometimes just because 
they don't see any need to make a foreign company richer, sometimes to support 
local languages and culture better.  


Brasil is not small and has a huge and specifically LibreOffice community.  
Germany and Italy are also strongly supportive of LibreOffice apparently along 
with France.  Most of Europe has 20% of the market using OpenOffice or 
LibreOffice.  Spanish governments (4/5 of them) put resources into developing 
their own variants of Ubuntu/Debain i think the other went with Arch.  The 
Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey develop Pardus which was 
one of the first distros to have LibreOffice by default.  Vietnam and many other 
countries are supporting a strong push towards OpenSource.  The "One Laptop Per 
Child" programme has helped children get a better education and is based on 
OpenSource.  


There is a lot of positive OpenSource action going on around the world which 
might leave corporate America lagging behind!  

Regards from
Tom :)




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Sent: Fri, 5 August, 2011 12:39:47
Subject: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House


The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief 
of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to 
Bill Gates].

Since all these big wigs in Microsoft get large blocks of stock in the company, 
which he most likely still has, this new guy in the White House as a good reason 
to keep the government using MS products over free and open source ones.

So I say; there goes the government's push to go open source and start using 
packages like LibreOffice.

Well, MS tries to control the world's computers, and now they have a man in the 
White House to control the government's computer system and other technology to 
MS's favor.



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