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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:09PM (#10420399)
The software may be open source but the support isn't. One of the reasons that Microsoft's office suite has been such a successful product over the years is because it just works.

One of the few correct statements Ayn Rand ever made was that when the age of money ends, it will usher in the age of pull. If you support someone that advocates a technological overhaul and it doesn't pay off, then you'll be left holding the bag. Not all politics in government happens on Capitol Hill.

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by mjevans on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:57PM (#10420677)
Part of that 'just works' is polish.

However it is disingenuous to discount the uncounted thousands of hours of training //per worker// in products with nearly identical look and feel (prior year's versions). This is a result of the /monopoly/ that they have had for decades.

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:33PM (#10420884)
How would that be any different from training people to use any other system?
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