On 2 November 2015 at 20:53, Henning Jacobs henning@jacobs1.de wrote:
This sounds great! Is there any site with a list of all government FOSS adoptions (policies and their implementation "level") around the world?
Don't know about that, but I suspect LibreOffice would be a useful source on the topic. Collabora just did a deal with the UK government purchasing agency to support a slightly customised build of LibreOffice, which is *awesome* news:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collabora-deal-will-provide-savings-on-op... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/21/government_signs_deal_with_libreoffi...
The comments on the Reg story are apposite: government financial controllers just got burnt *really badly* moving off Windows XP, and are really not at all positive towards Microsoft. And with LO and the forthcoming LO Online, they can stick it to Microsoft and not have to answer sticky questions about their data and the US government.
It's probably on Windows for the time being, but I look at things like LO as the gateway drug to more free software in the future.
- d.