Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice

dudeman2 writes "Israel National News reports that The Israel Finance Ministry said Sunday it will begin distributing Open Office for free as of next week. The ministry said that it would begin to distribute thousands of Open Office CD-ROMs at public computer centers and later on at community centers throughout the country, 'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'."

Comments

Re:My experience as a consultant for the Israelis

[Anonymous Coward]

"FINAL SOLUTION" is perhaps not the best choice of words. :)

Re:There is such a thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Palestinian authority chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday refused to comment on rumours that the PLO and Hizbollah were on the point of rolling out KOffice across their organizations, saying that internal software licensing was confidential and denying that the Zionists had got the upper hand by preemptively striking against Microsoft.

Distributed by CDR Copies

[H8X55]

'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'.

And in a similar move City Officials in Hong Kong announced plans to widely distribute illegal CD-R cracked copies of Micrsoft Office 2003.

oh yeah, wait, that's already being done without a government sanction.

Re:Is free cheap enough?

[artemis67]

No, but he is expected to meet with Yassir Arafat to discuss how he can fund the Microsoft intifada.

Re:Installation Costs?

[good soldier svejk]

If you have been using SMS to install and manage OO.org and StarOffice, our Windows desktop team would like to toalk to you. They seem to think this is a major hurdle.