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What deserves firing? Asking for Excel, or ignoring the alternatives?
It’s 2021, and you can still have problems for not using Microsoft.
Please promote ODF with these posters!
You really have no more excuse to not use and PROMOTE ODF.
That TERRIBLE LibreOffice tip that never dies
It is the one you keep finding scattered all over the Web. Here is another case.
It's 2018, and Libre Office is still promoted in the wrong way?
A recent review of LibreOffice 6.0 explains well how good it is, but also presents as a feature what actually is a failure (not in LibreOffice!).
The future of ODF, XML and office suites in Public Administrations
Last week I attended the Paris Open Source Summit, were I saw things as interesting and diverse as autonomous tractors, Open Source legal support and “degooglized Internet” visions. Please read that other post to know more. Here, I am only going to describe one other moment of POSS 2016, about two other arguments I care a lot about, and on which I wouldn’t mind working again, even if these days I am mostly busy with Digital DIY.
Pesaro, Microsoft and OpenOffice: the consequences
A few days ago I summarized the most questionable or uncertain points of the software odissey of the City of Pesaro, saying that I’d also post questions and consequences, both for the City and Open Source advocates, not mentioned yet in this story. For Pesaro, the road forward has little or nothing to do with the initial topic, that is Open Source Software in Public Administration. The advocates, instead, should rethink some of their strategies. Let’s start from Pesaro, but what follows applies to practically every city.