On 15/11/16 19:26, Rafael Laguna wrote: > Yes. But I was wrong. Not the OS, but the Office suite used. Here're > some links: > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/ > http://www.zdnet.com/article/another-italian-city-announces-its-ditching-microsoft-windows-for-open-source/ > http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/091715/italian-government-ditch-microsoft-open-source-libreoffic > > Which is stupid. The "real reasons" were "lack of support". But we all > know you can buy support from Canonical or SuSE, and have access to > professional cloud services oriented to huge enterprises. But... as you > said, I guess this is something else. Like the strange contracts signed > by the Spanish Government with Microsoft Iberica (Spanish part of > Microsoft, obviously) for installing Windows on ALL ministries (you can > see everywhere: hospitals / healthcare, social, taxes, etc). > > Your thoughts? >
Hi Rafael, Thanks for all of the links, I had no idea that Italy was so pro-opensource. Microsoft are fighting hard to discourage more converts, which is obviously to protect their source of revenue, but it is somewhat at odds with their public efforts to embrace open source in general (and linux in particular). We all know that converting is a challenge due to Microsoft's aggressive use of vendor lock-in so it would be easy to influence less-than-fully-committed politicians and so protect that lock-in. Barry T -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
