On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 20:53 +0000, toki wrote: > On 08/05/2011 05:57 PM, upscope wrote: > > > our government is looking for big budget cuts. One would be replace all > > the MS stuff with open source software. > > If the united states government, or the government of the united kingdom > ruled today that effective 1 January 2012, only FLOSS may be used by the > government, and closed source, proprietary software was banned, the > budget savings would, at the earliest, be visible in 2016, and probably > not until 2020, or even 2025. This is simply due to the unbreakable > contracts various software vendors have with those governments. > Contracts that requires the vendors to be paid, regardless of whether or > not the product meets the contract specifications, assuming it is > delivered in the first place. > > Long term, FLOSS saves money. Short term, it doesn't save money, and can > be described as costing money. > > jonathon > -- > If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting. > > If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth > requesting. > > DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw. >
Actually changing to another application/OS, etc will require a learning curve at the beginning. The advantage that FOSS has is the primary cost to using is the learning curve in most cases. I think often the actual costs of switching forget if I switched from LO to KOffice I have a learning curve, I do not know KOffice so I need to learn its quirks to become proficient. If a purchase is involved it just adds to the cost. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
