Tom and all On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:08 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 I can see another reason for say Turkey or Russia using FOSS is that they can create a fork for local specialized needs of major FOSS project. I expect as more people get comfortable with FOSS solutions we will see more of this. It has started with Linux but could include LO, OO, Calligra where a specialized version is developed. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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
