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

Tom and all

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:08 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: 

> 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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I can see another reason for say Turkey or Russia using FOSS is that
they can create a fork for local specialized needs of major FOSS
project. I expect as more people get comfortable with FOSS solutions we
will see more of this. It has started with Linux but could include LO,
OO, Calligra where a specialized version is developed.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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