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Old 17th March 2011
Broodjegehaktmetmayo Broodjegehaktmetmayo is offline
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Microsoft's lobbying did it again. The statements are full of rubbish (the German government recently came out with the same kind of report, by the way). It's the usual 'there are no printer drivers', 'replacing all current MS Office applications would be expensive' and bla, and bla, and bla. One can easily answer: buy a printer that is supported (and standardize for a change, instead of having every decentralized department decide on its own hardware). Furthermore: of course you don't want to replace MS Office within the timeframe of a running contract, that would be differential additional cost; you wait until the contract needs to renewed (usually three years). And finally, and I think the most important point: instead of having thousands of help desk employees answering calls about crappy (MS) software that doesn't work (outsourced of course, so it is guaranteed you pay a triple price for a man hour) retrain these people so they can develop open source software so you can help improve open source software. Now that would be a useful usage of tax payers money that now is being wasted on MS and such.
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