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Surely he/she should have said "German laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice". It seems built into the German mindset that policy should be enforced at
by loftsy 15y ago
Surely he/she should have said "German laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice". It seems built into the German mindset that policy should be enforced at a federal level.
Whilst I agree with a more integrated monetary policy in the Eurozone the continual assimilation of power in Brussels is the wrong way for Europe to go.
- sgift 15y agoIf you've taken the time to actually read the article you would've noticed that he talks about laptops used by EU officials not all laptops in Europe. This aside: Yes, laptops of german officials should use LibreOffice/OpenOffice too.
- lispm 15y agoGermany is a federal republic and some politics are centralized and others not. Compared to some other countries in, say, Europe, Germany is pretty decentralized. That the city Munich experiments with Linux is exactly because of this. This has nothing to do with assimilation of power in Brussels, but getting rid of Microsoft office and get more public money spend on 'free' and or 'open source' software. It is our money which keeps cities, states, countries and the EU budgets going.