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Los Angeles to Consider Open Source Software

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-in-the-valley dept.

lientz writes "According to an article at FederalComputerWeek, the city of Los Angeles is considering using Open Source software as a cost cutting measure. From the article: "...city officials could save $5.2 million by switching to OpenOffice... rather than purchasing a Microsoft Office product at $200 per license for 26,000 desktops. The savings would go to a special fund to hire more employees for the police department, a major focus for city officials right now, he added.""

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  1. Not Surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everything else in LA is crap - why not their software too?

    1. Re:Not Surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I still got frost pist, you little gay weenie modding-down fuckwad. You will pay for this.

  2. OpenOffice Access by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm just glad they can use the Open Source version of Access to work with their MDBs. What's it called again?

  3. You get what you pay for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And when all the executives, managers, and administrators' productivity drops like a rock due to the truly awful nature of almost ALL open source products, then they will reap the rewards they've earned.

    I don't understand why you people still harp on about how great open source software is.

    Most of it is shit. Most of it is almost unusable.

    Windows XP, Microsoft Office, and all the rest, these programs actually work. Sure they've got quirks. Sure they've got some bugs.

    But open source software is nothing BUT quirks and bugs.

    And yet you talk about the problems with commercial products. Blind to the fact that your beloved software development model has left you spending 70% of your time on your computer just TRYING TO GET THINGS WORKING in the first place, 39% of the time tweaking shit and downloading stupid programs, and if you're lucky, -9% of your time actually getting stuff done.

    Why are you so stupid? What's wrong with you? Is it because you don't BELONG anywhere? Only other open source losers will accept you? Were you beat as a child? What IS your major malfunction, idiots?

  4. This is news? by bbc · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The city of Los Angeles is considering using Open Source software". How is this news? I don't know how things are in the US, but in civilized countries, democratically elected governments do not just carry a pile of cash in a wheelbarrow to the first monopolist they can find, but rather consider all the alternatives.