Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major savings

Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by a3n on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:25AM (#10418719)

The way to actually save money, if that's the goal, is to try not to want full-fledged word processors and office suites.

For most internal communication, plain text or something like RTF at most is more than sufficient.

Trying to replace Word and Office with cheaper or open is doomed, because Office is far ahead of everything else, and everything else will be judged for not being Office.

Open source's best contribution could be a standardized simple text format.

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:29AM (#10419345)

For most communication, full stop. I edited a news-stand magazine with TextEdit on the Mac for several years (Apple's bundled text editor, speaks RTF). I found that the complexities of Word just got in the way, and the InDesign guys liked receiving consistently, minimally marked-up text.

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