Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?

I've just received a batch of resent messages, such as the one below,
from some idiot joto2036@verizon.net, who thinks it's fun to resend
messages without adding any content.

joto2036 wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Knott" <james.knott@rogers.com>
> To: <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale
> computers ?
>
>
> Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote:
> > > Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article,
> > > *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* (
> > > http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-7000021479/
> > >
> > > ), over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows
> > > XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume,
> > > LO is included as the standard office suite, ...
> >
> > Perhaps not.
> >
> > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu/
> >
> > (from 2009) says
> > > The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005
> > > when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the
> > > entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software
> > > applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of
> > > Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and
> > > incrementally migrate to Ubuntu.
>
> Either way, they're not using Microsoft Office.  They're using open
> source software that's supported on multiple platforms and share common
> standardized file formats.  This ends the MS lock in for them.
   

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