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Why does the EU Parliament stick with Office and other Microsoft software ? An Italian EU deputy, Marco Cappato, had the guts to ask. The reply was they were basing on a study made in 2005. He asked to them to make it public, but his request was refused. Nobody believed he could get the EU to make it public. An well known Italian IT website even called that ‘a miracle‘. I’m going no further, I’ll just translate Cappato’s post and attach here the document for the world to see. Up to you to judge how good it is. (not that is that the document is still super-secret, but it has been disclosed very recently and I guess you won’t have many other chances to read it otherwise)
[In the actual study, Gartner claims there are no mature Linux deployments in Europe(!) -- Sander]
The European Union funds research of the costs and benefits of OSOSS, great things have been written by UNU-MERIT (United Nations University in Maastricht, NL, EU), OSOR / former IDABC which covers _real_ case studies conducted in the EU itself and the COSPA-project which is funded through the 6th framework; http://www.cospa-project.org/ especially researches the cost / benefits in € of migration.
And then they're going to use the study of an American based Bill Gates owned company? They're completely out of their mind. I think they (those MP's with a gazillion different totally other cases on their mind - like Afghanistan, Iran, Gay marriages etc. I saw on their page) need help. I assume their mailbox is full of **** just like mine. So let the printer roll and let's buy some Belgian stamps... And then pray the 'nice' EP's are in Brussels and those few French arrogant ****** didn't send them to Strasbourg again.
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And then they're going to use the study of an American based Bill Gates owned company? They're completely out of their mind. I think they (those MP's with a gazillion different totally other cases on their mind - like Afghanistan, Iran, Gay marriages etc. I saw on their page) need help. I assume their mailbox is full of **** just like mine. So let the printer roll and let's buy some Belgian stamps... And then pray the 'nice' EP's are in Brussels and those few French arrogant ****** didn't send them to Strasbourg again.