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Paying €600k Licence Fine Convinces Town to Drop Move to Alternative Office Tools

posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 24 2014, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the paying-the-Danegeld dept.

gewg_ writes:

The European Union's interoperability page reports:

The Dutch city of Arnhem has some civil servants working from home. The city did not properly license the proprietary software those folks were using. After paying a €600k settlement with A_software_vendor_you_all_know, the town has cancelled its plans to convert to Open Source office software.

[...]says the city's CIO, Simon Does

"It makes no sense not to use these licences, so we've stopped looking for alternatives", the CIO told the European Commission's Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR). Possible alternatives would have been LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice, two closely related open source office suites.

N.B. Some here will remember that in the year 2000, Ernie Ball, Inc. was dinged for $100k and that that episode was enough to convince CEO Sterling Ball to order that all EULAware used in that operation be replaced with FOSS.

 
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