When I hear about these custom distributions developed by governments I sense that the source code never finds its way into the public domain. Consequently they are more likely to be examples of the exploitation of open source rather than the adoption of open source principles. Given its track record of surveillance and secrecy does anybody seriously believe that a Linux-based operating system developed by the Chinese government would be any less closed and proprietary than Microsoft?
Local and regional governments, along with their agencies, tend to lack the resources to maintain their own applications and operating system versions. Because of that I would be more encouraged to learn of 20 smaller administrations or organisations adopting LO and other open source applications than one monolithic government. It has to be better overall for the open source "movement" and its principles. Nige LibreOffice - Free and open source office suite: LibreOffice Website<https://www.libreoffice.org> Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data ________________________________ From: Paolo Debortoli <[email protected]> Sent: 28 December 2021 09:01 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: R: Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website Hi. My humble opinion. Many years ago a small municipality here migrated to LibreOffice saying that ms office provides a higher quality, but It wasn't necessary. Since then LibreOffice improved. I guess ecosystem and compatibility are a good issue too. But first problem Is that many people are not aware of the problems and don't want to change. Ms Is still more used than open source, but things are slowly changing. Not so many people use Skype today and even the EU commission has suggested signal instead of whatsapp. Many governments (e g. Holland) are integrating open source in their policies. The french police uses a Linux distribuzion Gendbuntu on their pcs. The same Is happening in Russia and China. By the way many open source are competitive and widely used such as Red Hat linux, Apache, LibreOffice, mysql, but not only. I guess yes, integration, compatibility and ecosystem made ms more competitive and we need to think about. 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