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Italian Military To Switch To LibreOffice and ODF

Posted by timothy on from the latin-roots dept.

jrepin writes: The Italian military is transitioning to LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF). The Ministry of Defense will over the next year-and-a-half install this suite of office productivity tools on some 150,000 PC workstations — making it Europe's second largest LibreOffice implementation.

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  1. Re:Italy has a military? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Way before Florence and Venice. You know, there was this thing called Roman Empire, which basically amounted to 90% of the civilized world 2K years ago. If we look at more recent times, Italy was part of 3 wars over the last century, it won two of them (one against the Ottoman Empire and WWI). It lost WWII only because it was driven by an idiotic dictator who entered the war after a 3 month preparation. As for the US, the last three wars it was part of were in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention the recent "proxy war" with Russia in the Donbass region: the brilliant results speak for themselves.

    But probably in US high schools History is not cool enough to be taught, they teach you "courses" like rollerblading and "home economics" instead, and at night you might enjoy the katrashians.

  2. Re: Italy has a military? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Go ahead and walk right into Iraq and Afghanistan and show us all how it's done

    Why should I? And why should Italy? Saddam Hussein didn't do anything wrong to Italy, he was a pretty good leader, he kept its country stable, I don't remember any refugees coming here when he was in power. I wouldn't have attacked him in the first place, just like Khadafi in Lybia, just like Assad in Syria, two other pretty good leaders. And there wouldn't be massive amounts of refugees coming to Italy and several other european countries as a result. As for the Talibans, sorry, but Bin Laden was harbored by Pakistan, not Afghanistan, as events eventually proved. But Pakistan has nukes, so you were afraid to bomb it, right?

    Basically everywhere you go you make a massive mess, just like the obese kid in the class when he tries to decorate the christmas tree: many kilograms on the belly, zero neurons inside the head. Except that the damages of your mess are paid for by somebody else.

  3. Understand your needs and pick the right solution by Ravaldy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Company CTOs or equivalent need to understand the needs of their company before they pick a product. Here's a list that shows the products side by side:
    https://wiki.documentfoundatio...