[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu Linux spotted at a Cheese Shop in Belluno, Italy

[Rafael Laguna]

...aaaand this:

http://www.lffl.org/2016/11/emilia-romagna-e-brasile-dicono-addio-allopen-source.html


On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 20:26 Rafael Laguna <rafaellaguna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes. But I was wrong. Not the OS, but the Office suite used. Here're some
> links:
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/another-italian-city-announces-its-ditching-microsoft-windows-for-open-source/
>
> http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/091715/italian-government-ditch-microsoft-open-source-libreoffic
>
> Which is stupid. The "real reasons" were "lack of support". But we all
> know you can buy support from Canonical or SuSE, and have access to
> professional cloud services oriented to huge enterprises. But... as you
> said, I guess this is something else. Like the strange contracts signed by
> the Spanish Government with Microsoft Iberica (Spanish part of Microsoft,
> obviously) for installing Windows on ALL ministries (you can see
> everywhere: hospitals / healthcare, social, taxes, etc).
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 15:20 Barry Titterton <titterton.barry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 15/11/16 06:55, Rafael Laguna wrote:
> > Beautiful.
> > Sadly Italy's government is coming back to Windows. Their OpenSource try
> > was unsuccessful.
> >
> > :(
> >
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Do you have a link to an english language review of the Italian
> government's experience with open source?
>
> Munich is in the news at the moment so it would be interesting to hear
> the experiences of another attempt at open source and why it failed. Was
> it political meddling (as is happening in Bavaria), or purely technical
> concerns, or a bit of both?
>
> Cheers,
> Barry T
>
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