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Another Italian City Switches to OpenOffice

posted by n1 on Wednesday September 17 2014, @08:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the premium-licensing dept.

francois.barbier writes:

ZDNet reports:

The latest in what is becoming an impressively long list of Italian cities to make the transition is the City of Udine, a town of 100,000 people in the north east of Italy. The municipality recently announced that by the end of 2014 it will start a process which, over the coming years, will make OpenOffice the default personal productivity suite on each of its 900 computers.

The move, the city says, will allow it to save roughly €400 on the cost of software licensing for each machine, a total of €360,000. The migration will start with 80 new computers that, according to the 2014 budget document, have to be bought by December.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Wednesday September 17 2014, @11:32PM

    by choose another one (515) on Wednesday September 17 2014, @11:32PM (#94726)

    Ah now, be fair, all those asking for this were only ignored (or referred back to navigator - and, no, it isn't) for about 5 years or so, then we got the enlightened developer comments as, for example, quoted here: http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2007/02/02/openoffice-development-team-takes-first-step-toward-writers-outline-mode [ruwenzori.net]

    I agree with everybody here that this is an important feature and so does the whole team. This is one of the bigger features that we will try to implement as soon as some resources will be available

    Which was only about 7.5yrs ago... give em time, it's not like we need the tools now to write stuff for a living is it...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 18 2014, @01:49AM (#94760)

    as soon as some resources will be available

    Resources == money
    If that feature is so important to you, it seems that you would have demonstrated your interest.
    Open-source bounty [wikipedia.org]

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    7.5yrs ago

    So, tell us about all the development work that -you- have done pro bono.

    -- gewg_