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I think that's really interesting. I had never thought of it. I'm one of those people who loves what Linux is all about, and too lazy, perhaps, ever to have learned it...

ANSWER: See, that's the cute thing, they've done a ton of work over the last few years to make it look and act just like windows and mac.

I wonder what keeps local governments tied to proprietary software? ANSWER: I have no idea... Do we get anything by using those products? ANSWER: I dunno, a bill every few months and years to remind you that you're microsoft's bit...er...nevermind ;) I think the best thing I can say about that is that people are used to it, and that young kids coming out of college have had those proprietary software packages drummed into their heads because of cozy relationships between universities and the software developers...

I like this idea... What kind of learning curve would be required of the public employees?

ANSWER: Not a lot, actually. Database administrators would get up to speed pretty quickly. Number Crunchers have access to pretty sweet replacements for Office in LibreOffice and/or OpenOffice (Download 'em, they're great!) The Designers/Marketers would have to learn some new tools, but the Graphics softwares of Inkscape/Gimp/Blender have been used to create movies the likes of which you'd think Disney and Pixar had something to do with 'em.

I'm guessing there would be some, but I can also imagine that in the long run any expenses needed for retraining would be more than saved in purchases and upgrades. ANSWER: The fantastic thing about this is that you could essentially use hardware until it breaks instead of being sucked into the upgrade cycle of software that may require you to buy new equipment to run it based on new processor architectures..So, there could be pretty high savings in hardware costs...

Can you write some more about it? I did! :) I can supply you with links to where you can do more research. Do you have a tech person at the moment?

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If you guys need help with emails or social media stuff, I can help there. :)

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smiles I am always entertained by the kids in college who got deathly nervous when they had to submit their final papers for their courses. Us art students had to deal with those days every bloody day of class thanks to the wonderful concept of the Crit...your worst possible day of class, happened on a weekly basis for me...tell me again how stressed out you are? ;)

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No problem Kevin! I dislike the elitist crap that is out there from some folks...we all are made of the same flesh and blood...so, we all contribute our own unique "stuff" to our ecosystem :)

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Here's a link to a story about the Croatian government converting to Open Source Software.

http://archive09.linux.com/feature/56376

A study that was done a while ago that shows that it would be beneficial for the US govt to transition to open source software on several levels.

http://www.netaction.org/opensrc/oss-whole.html

and a link to the open source initiative. A good site to read up on it! :)

http://opensource.org/