Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Re:Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and L... by rbanffy on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:40AM (#2738588)

I fail to see where the article implies Brazilan government would try to control either office suite. What I read was they would work together and support. If they hire a dozen developers (and, from my experience with FLOSS within the Brazilian government, they would be very clever people) we should be happy, right?

I also see this commitment would go a long way in creating and documenting the means to support OOo an LO in very large installations, helping develop the technologies companies would use to deploy them.

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Re:Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and L... by arthur_debert on Thursday July 07, 2011 @11:05AM (#2738729)

The language of the letter is pretty vague, it mentions "creation of a collaboration group to develop" which can be pretty munch anything (or nothing at all, actually).

I am not sure the Brazilian gov hiring developers is the best course of action. I'd much rather have it fund Apache Soft, Mozilla, or any other organization that knows how to do it.

In my experience, pretty much ever govt software I've interacted with (imposto de renda, nota fiscal paulista, the portal brasil fluke?) is incredibly bad. I fail to see the hand on clever people in them.

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