On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, John McCreesh wrote:
"And one of the reportâs findings is that users of Microsoft Office are
no more productive than users of OpenOffice."
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901596&subSection=Open+Source
An older report, actually a pariliamentary resolution, has the following
tidbit:
30. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote
software projects whose source text is made public
(open-source software), as this is the only way of guaranteeing
that no backdoors are built into programmes;
http://www3.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/pv2?PRG=DOCPV&APP=PV2&LANGUE=EN&SDOCTA=21&TXTLST=1&POS=1&Type_Doc=RESOL&TPV=DEF&DATE=050901&[EMAIL
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I dare you to find it (the final edition) in Google.
The resolution was made in 2001, but started in 2000. MS has been able to
block IT development in the EU for seven, eight years.
-Lars
Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Swedish Native-Lang co-lead
http://sv.openoffice.org
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