<div dir="ltr">...aaaand this:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lffl.org/2016/11/emilia-romagna-e-brasile-dicono-addio-allopen-source.html">http://www.lffl.org/2016/11/emilia-romagna-e-brasile-dicono-addio-allopen-source.html</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 20:26 Rafael Laguna <<a href="mailto:rafaellaguna@gmail.com">rafaellaguna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Yes. But I was wrong. Not the OS, but the Office suite used. Here're some links:<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/another-italian-city-announces-its-ditching-microsoft-windows-for-open-source/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/article/another-italian-city-announces-its-ditching-microsoft-windows-for-open-source/</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/091715/italian-government-ditch-microsoft-open-source-libreoffic" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/091715/italian-government-ditch-microsoft-open-source-libreoffic</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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).</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Your thoughts?</div></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 at 15:20 Barry Titterton <<a href="mailto:titterton.barry@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">titterton.barry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 15/11/16 06:55, Rafael Laguna wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Beautiful.<br class="gmail_msg">
> Sadly Italy's government is coming back to Windows. Their OpenSource try<br class="gmail_msg">
> was unsuccessful.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> :(<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Hi Rafael,<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Do you have a link to an english language review of the Italian<br class="gmail_msg">
government's experience with open source?<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Munich is in the news at the moment so it would be interesting to hear<br class="gmail_msg">
the experiences of another attempt at open source and why it failed. Was<br class="gmail_msg">
it political meddling (as is happening in Bavaria), or purely technical<br class="gmail_msg">
concerns, or a bit of both?<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Cheers,<br class="gmail_msg">
Barry T<br class="gmail_msg">
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