[CS-FSLUG] NI: Massachusetts to adopt 'open' desktop

[JD Runyan]

Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Another blow to MickySoft......their Office is "out," and OpenOffice is "in." 
> Logic would dictate that Linux will be replacing 'Bloze as well!
> 
> Fred
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> Massachusetts to adopt 'open' desktop!
> 
> The commonwealth of Massachusetts will phase out office productivity 
> applications from Microsoft and other providers in favor of those based on 
> "open" standards.
> 
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5845451.html?tag=nl.e589
> 
Getting rid of the OS is probably not so much an issue after the MFC 
chord has been cut, but it won't happen until some brave computer 
manufacturer actually builds and markets a PC pre-installed with Linux 
as the default configuration. I don't think OS cost will drive it much, 
because most people view the OS as a part of the computer, and thus the 
OS is not usually budgeted for. The inroads on POS systems are more 
valuable, because those companies are starting to provide total Linux 
solutions. As they do so, they have started providing general purpose 
machines to manage the registers that run Linux. These can be used for 
everything else as well. All it takes is a geek to point it out to them.

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