[kictanet] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

[meshack emakunat]

Think of it as a two pairs of pants one requires a belt and cannot stretch and the other doesn't need any belt coz it got a rubber stretch on the waist 
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On Thu, May 2, 2013 6:47 AM PDT Evans Ikua wrote:

>"The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the
>switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the
>majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO
>Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the
>move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year."
>Read more here:
>https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-switch-40000-government-pcs-open-source
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>*My estimation that for every 300 dollars of my tax money that the
>Government spends on MS Office licensing, 250 dollars is wasted.*
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