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Perhaps we need to fund this using, gasp, public funds? I mean, I bet every government worker around the world needs a computer with an OS and an office suite.
by remir 9y ago
Perhaps we need to fund this using, gasp, public funds?
I mean, I bet every government worker around the world needs a computer with an OS and an office suite. G7 countries could pool their resources together to hire engineers and designers and develop common solutions, like a FOSS alternative to Exchange, Windows and Office.
ReacOS would be a good start; it's already an open source clone of Windows.
- icebraining 9y agoPublic funds have developed plenty of alternatives to Windows. Spain alone had four Linux distros funded by different regional governments. A whole bunch of countries around the world made their own as well. Suggesting that we bury even more public funds into alternatives to Windows/Office is not helpful unless we can first devise a model that produces something better.
- remir 9y agoSpain alone had four Linux distros funded by different regional governments. How is that efficient? What a waste of public funds. What I am talking about is making ONE operating system for every level of governance. I'm talking about agreements by all party involved to pool their resources to make ONE OS, not 56. The most popular desktop OS in the world is Windows. People are familiar with it and Win32 apps, so why not use ReactOS as a starting point?
- icebraining 9y agoHow is that efficient? What a waste of public funds. That's exactly my point. Getting states to invest in free operating systems is not hard. But your proposal is only useful if it includes some way to get them to work together.