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

On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 20:53 +0000, toki wrote: 

> On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote:
>
> > our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace  all the MS stuff with open 
> > source software. 
>
> If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom
> ruled today that effective 1 January 2012, only FLOSS may be used by the
> government, and closed source, proprietary software was banned, the
> budget savings would, at the earliest, be visible in 2016, and probably
> not until 2020, or even 2025. This is simply due to the unbreakable
> contracts various software vendors have with those governments.
> Contracts that requires the vendors to be paid, regardless of whether or
> not the product meets the contract specifications, assuming it is
> delivered in the first place.
>
> Long term, FLOSS saves money. Short term, it doesn't save money, and can
> be described as costing money.
>
> jonathon
> -- 
> If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting.
>
> If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth
> requesting.
>
>                               DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw.

Actually changing to another application/OS, etc will require a learning
curve at the beginning. The advantage that FOSS has is the primary cost
to using is the learning curve in most cases. I think often the actual
costs of switching forget if I switched from LO to KOffice I have a
learning curve, I do not know KOffice so I need to learn its quirks to
become proficient. If a purchase is involved it just adds to the cost.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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