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It's an unsubstantiated claim but my impression is that governments are not good at managing companies. Who gets to decide if it's better to use LibreOffice or
by zimbatm 8y ago
It's an unsubstantiated claim but my impression is that governments are not good at managing companies.
Who gets to decide if it's better to use LibreOffice or OpenOffice? What are the features that are the most important for the office replacement? How is it going to be supported? Is there a line where people can call to complain about the product? Taking all that OSS and packaging it sounds a lot like running a company, especially when multiple "consumers" are involved.
- nisa 8y agoGood questions. Maybe something like a cooperative¹ that is independed of the states? Such a project could probably even be refinanced by users who pay for consulting. How to organize this in such a way that it will be successfull and efficient? Let's start researching it now. It's such a shame how European universities and every other part of the state is switching to Microsoft because the on-premise alternatives mostly suck. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative