I've just received a batch of resent messages, such as the one below, from some idiot joto2...@verizon.net, who thinks it's fun to resend messages without adding any content.
joto2036 wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Knott" <james.kn...@rogers.com> > To: <users@global.libreoffice.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 1:34 PM > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale > computers ? > > > Brian Barker wrote: >> At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: >>> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, >>> *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( >>> http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-7000021479/ >>> >>> ), over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows >>> XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, >>> LO is included as the standard office suite, ... >> >> Perhaps not. >> >> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu/ >> >> (from 2009) says >>> The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 >>> when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the >>> entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software >>> applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of >>> Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and >>> incrementally migrate to Ubuntu. >> > > Either way, they're not using Microsoft Office. They're using open > source software that's supported on multiple platforms and share common > standardized file formats. This ends the MS lock in for them. > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
