On 13/05/11 20:02, plino wrote: > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227849/open_source_advocates_angry_at_german_govt_decision.html > > This isn't even about OpenOffice vs LibreOffice... It's about Closed Source > vs Open Source > > TBH I think it was a bad move to change radically if you have experienced > and productive users trained on whatever program (regardless of the > license). > > Also, if you need professional support you can't just move to Open Source, > let alone a Linux distro that was still being developed... > > Could it be that it took them 6 years to realize that? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/German-Foreign-Office-is-dropping-only-open-source-software-policy-tp2935716p2935716.html > Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
A bit offtopic of course, but what a waste! Suse have been there all the time and I'm pretty sure Redhat have a regional office serving Germany. So I think this cooks down to mismanagement above everything else... -Olav -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
