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This person is totally out of touch with reality. I do agree, however, that public entities should lean on open-source software where possible. It's our tax mo
by _trackno5 4y ago
This person is totally out of touch with reality.
I do agree, however, that public entities should lean on open-source software where possible. It's our tax money that's paying for all those licenses. I see no point in govt agencies requiring windows licenses when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser.
- na85 4y ago>I see no point in govt agencies requiring windows licenses when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser. The point is there's someone to sue when things go wrong. I'm not being facetious. If government runs Gentoo and it turns out there's a decades-old bug in polkit that gets chained with an 0day that results in everyone's social security numbers getting leaked, who's responsible? If that happens with Microsoft they can in theory sue, and more importantly they can blame Microsoft in the media.
- josephcsible 4y agoThere are critical security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products all the time. When was the last time Microsoft lost a lawsuit over one?
- scarface74 4y agoAnd it will also be your tax money that pays for the tech support.
- tester756 4y ago>when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser. I recently had to write some doc that utilized a lot of fanciness of word and no, web office feels like a demo version of desktop.