Spanish Region Goes Entirely Open Source 219
greengrass writes to tell us TechWorld is reporting that the Spanish region of Extremadura has decided to go completely open source with their day-to-day operations. While the region has long been a supporter of open source software, within a year it will be a requirement that all officials use the ODF and PDF formats for all documents. From the article: "Extremadura, Spain's poorest region, made headlines following a 2002 decision to migrate about 70,000 desktops and 400 servers in its schools to a locally tailored version of Debian called gnuLinEx. The government has estimated that the total cost of this project was about 190,000 euros (£130,000), 18 million euros lower than if the schools had purchased Microsoft software. "
Is it just me? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A Goal! (Score:3, Funny)
Please, if you're going to use football (sorry, 'soccer') metaphors, at least do it right. It should be:
"GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLL LLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Re:Is it just me? (Score:5, Funny)
No, no... the GP post was alluding to: (Score:4, Funny)
Paul B.
Judgement day (Score:4, Funny)
Nobody (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody expects the now Open Source based Spanish Inquisition!
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Re:Credit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:2, Funny)
And look at their forking problems! Proof positive that proprietary religions don't have the same forking problems and open source religions.
Spain is a socialist country these days... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A Goal! (Score:4, Funny)
"YOU TOOK A BLOODY DIVE!"
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Funny)
or
Inquistion is Not Quite the Usual InquiSITION
(guess where I got bored in the previous line)
For those that don't know.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:1, Funny)
As for the polytheistic religions, they aren't so much forks as localisations. The Norse god Odin, for instance, is the same as the Saxon god Wotan. (except Odin didn't make cheap light bulbs in the 1970s).