Re: [us-marketing] White House endorses open source - be nice if they do the same of LibreOffice.

On 02/18/2011 06:11 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

> So does anyone know a way to get the White House, or the proper people
> in the US government, to look at LibreOffice's efforts in the open
> source community and to review the software package?

A couple of years ago I started putting together a lengthy seminar for 
my employer, NASA/JPL, to explain why ODF and OOo (this was pre-LibO) 
were good things to support throughout the laboratory.  I never finished 
it, but I was thinking of revamping this for LibO.  If anyone wants to 
help contribute, let me know.

The major enticement I see for use of LibO for government are the 
federal regulations on document retention.  These require documents be 
retained and accessible for certain lengths of time.  ODF shines in this 
area (open standard with good support from multiple applications), OOXML 
doesn't, and MSO doesn't either.

There are also some good TCO arguments and cross-platform arguments, 
which I think resonate well in a diverse IT environment.  I am 
absolutely convinced that the U.S. government could save quite a bit of 
money, without sacrificing quality, by moving to LibO.

     ----Jon

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