Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government
Hello Owen, Nothing is done nor decided. I understand the city council does not share the mayor's point of view. From what it looks like it is a political issue that uses technical arguments. Best,. Charles. On 19 août 2014 10:22:44 CEST, Owen Genat owen.ge...@gmail.com wrote: This http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611 recent Süddeutsche article (German text - English version via Google Translate here https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=yprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fmuenchen%2Fmuenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611edit-text=act=url ) seems to be getting cited by a number of Tech news sites. The ZDNet article here http://www.zdnet.com/after-a-10-year-linux-migration-munich-considers-switching-back-to-windows-and-office-732714/ appears to offer more detail than most. Scant mention is made of LibreOffice in any of the articles. Does anyone have a clearer understanding of what this may mean in terms of LibreOffice use if the policy is reversed and a transition from LiMux (Ubuntu-based distribution) back to Microsoft Windows begins? LibreOffice can of course run on either platform, but part of the issue seems to have been OOXML support when exchanging files with customers. It will be disheartening to see a reversal after so much effort. - Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Recent-reversal-questioning-of-policy-by-Munchen-government-tp4119469.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government
On 19/08/14 09:22, Owen Genat wrote: This http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611 recent Süddeutsche article (German text - English version via Google Translate here https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=yprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fmuenchen%2Fmuenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611edit-text=act=url ) seems to be getting cited by a number of Tech news sites. The ZDNet article here http://www.zdnet.com/after-a-10-year-linux-migration-munich-considers-switching-back-to-windows-and-office-732714/ appears to offer more detail than most. Scant mention is made of LibreOffice in any of the articles. Does anyone have a clearer understanding of what this may mean in terms of LibreOffice use if the policy is reversed and a transition from LiMux (Ubuntu-based distribution) back to Microsoft Windows begins? LibreOffice can of course run on either platform, but part of the issue seems to have been OOXML support when exchanging files with customers. It will be disheartening to see a reversal after so much effort. - Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Recent-reversal-questioning-of-policy-by-Munchen-government-tp4119469.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. And there's a lovely lot of FUD about this here: http://www.wpcentral.com/munich-germanys-government-using-windows-again-after-failure-linux -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] Recent reversal / questioning of policy by München government
Hi Owen, Charles is right, there seems to be something like a political deal between the new major and the headquarter of Microsoft which is to move from near Munich to Munich itself as heise mentioned in its article: http://tinyurl.com/k4aumnt Well, this discussion get a bad momentum, some potential customers asking about this rumors. Perhaps it is a good opportunity to hear about it from first hand at the libreoffice conference in Bern in the business track at 3rd September (conference.libreoffice.org). If it is right, that they will have an expert audit about the migration, which is in fact a legitim step, it will be of crucial importance, who the experts will be, as a other city government has shown. See you soon in Bern, Lothar Am 19.08.2014 um 11:37 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Hello Owen, Nothing is done nor decided. I understand the city council does not share the mayor's point of view. From what it looks like it is a political issue that uses technical arguments. Best,. Charles. On 19 août 2014 10:22:44 CEST, Owen Genat owen.ge...@gmail.com wrote: This http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611 recent Süddeutsche article (German text - English version via Google Translate here https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=yprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fmuenchen%2Fmuenchner-stadtverwaltung-von-microsoft-zu-linux-und-zurueck-1.2090611edit-text=act=url ) seems to be getting cited by a number of Tech news sites. The ZDNet article here http://www.zdnet.com/after-a-10-year-linux-migration-munich-considers-switching-back-to-windows-and-office-732714/ appears to offer more detail than most. Scant mention is made of LibreOffice in any of the articles. Does anyone have a clearer understanding of what this may mean in terms of LibreOffice use if the policy is reversed and a transition from LiMux (Ubuntu-based distribution) back to Microsoft Windows begins? LibreOffice can of course run on either platform, but part of the issue seems to have been OOXML support when exchanging files with customers. It will be disheartening to see a reversal after so much effort. - Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Recent-reversal-questioning-of-policy-by-Munchen-government-tp4119469.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
