Hi :) There are other countries in the world and not all of them follow the US slavishly. It's not "the" government, it's just "a" government.
Many other countries push OpenSource or at least non-MS, sometimes just because they don't see any need to make a foreign company richer, sometimes to support local languages and culture better. Brasil is not small and has a huge and specifically LibreOffice community. Germany and Italy are also strongly supportive of LibreOffice apparently along with France. Most of Europe has 20% of the market using OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Spanish governments (4/5 of them) put resources into developing their own variants of Ubuntu/Debain i think the other went with Arch. The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey develop Pardus which was one of the first distros to have LibreOffice by default. Vietnam and many other countries are supporting a strong push towards OpenSource. The "One Laptop Per Child" programme has helped children get a better education and is based on OpenSource. There is a lot of positive OpenSource action going on around the world which might leave corporate America lagging behind! Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmas...@krackedpress.com> To: LibreO - Users Global <users@global.libreoffice.org> Sent: Fri, 5 August, 2011 12:39:47 Subject: [libreoffice-users] There goes Open-Source in the White House The new chief information officer for the federal government - White House Chief of Information Technology - is a former Microsoft Executive [and assistant to Bill Gates]. Since all these big wigs in Microsoft get large blocks of stock in the company, which he most likely still has, this new guy in the White House as a good reason to keep the government using MS products over free and open source ones. So I say; there goes the government's push to go open source and start using packages like LibreOffice. Well, MS tries to control the world's computers, and now they have a man in the White House to control the government's computer system and other technology to MS's favor. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
