While we at it, Valencia completed migration of 120,000 desktops to LibreOffice, to save more than $1,500,000 per year http://iloveubuntu.net/valencia-completed-migration-120000-desktops-libreoff... On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> wrote:
If most of the listers are like me, I am working on positioning myself for this switch. Open-source software builds a service rather than a product based industry. You don't buy a DVD of software. You buy the service to customize and support the software. Seems more vulnerable at first but in the long run the competition and skill-set demanded will be good for the market/economy.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Frankline Chitwa <frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
No hot childlike enthusiasm debates to melt the diodes off our LCD screens (AMOLED)?.
No, truthfully, am glad that we can argue with facts and not fiction and flame.
+1. The level of maturity in this current debate is encouraging, with issues such as TCO and ROI being mentioned.. A few years ago this would have been a flame war.
(going back into lurk mode)
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