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

How real it is and going to become depends on the new Chief of Technology.

Here is the article about the naming of the new Chief.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/technology/white-house-picks-new-information-chief.html?_r=3&ref=technology 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/technology/white-house-picks-new-information-chief.html?_r=3&ref=technology>

On 08/05/2011 07:50 AM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> Is this for real?
>
> This is terrible news
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> from twohot@device.mobile :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:39:47
> To: LibreO - Users Global<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> 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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