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.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Thursday September 18 2014, @11:03PM
Not the same reason at all - fallacy of exclusivity. I say I can't go vegetarian because I can't find a good substitute for steak, and you say it's just the same for you - you can't eat meat because you can't find a good substitute for tofu burgers.
Newsflash: you can eat meat _and_ tofu burgers. You don't have to replace software just to use some other software. I can, and do, use free software _as well as_ MS Office.
I've used Emacs for decades, on various platforms, but use it rarely these days - so something or some combination of things has replaced it, or maybe what I need to do has changed, but _nothing_ ever forced me to stop using it and replace it. I can still fire it up any time I want to feel like I'm back in the 80s.