William Poaster wrote:
>Quite some time ago, in 2003, the state of Israel announced it was dumping
>M$ Office in favour of OpenOffice in all it's government departments. It
>began distributing Openoffice.org to its users in January 2004.
>Following this, the city of Austin (Texas) adopted OOo software. Governments
>in Germany, France, Brazil and China have also stated interest in going the
>open source route too.
>
>Seems they're all quite happy to use it, which makes the Wintrolls like
>Quack (who say it's crap) look like the M$ shills they are.
Well, it's just insane to keep paying big money to M$ for word
processor and spreadsheet software - both rather mature technologies
that, for most people, need not be updated hardly ever. How many
times has the typical company bought new versions of M$ Word for any
given employee? It's absurd.
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