Now, how much did Microsoft make from MS Office last year?
That's a red herring. They could avoid sending money to Microsoft by foregoing computers and doing all their work with pencil and paper.
The question is how much does it cost to use some other standard versus ODF? It's hard to tell because so much FUD is being spread on both sides (including this article). But if there were significant savings the switch would likely have been made a long time ago.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea. I use Apache Open Office and I'm quite happy with it.
I read the article, but it escapes me how switching document formats "would allow real innovation, and real procurement."
Maybe it would get them away from using as many capitalist pig Microsoft products (which I'm sure Greens like this guy want). But claims it would help innovation, procurement, or even cost savings are suspect at best.
One can cook a steak (or shrimp) on a barbecue. In many places that's known as barbecuing.
Around here the term "grilling a deer" means you need to take your car to the body shop.
And while Apple can readily fix a bug in its own software, at least for users who keep up on patches, "Linux" refers to a broad range of systems and vendors, rather than a single company, and the affected systems include some of the biggest names in the Linux world, like Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu.
Gee. it sure is a problem that Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu couldn't just, you know, fix the bug and recompile the source code. Oh wait, they already did
FTFA
GnuTLS developers published this bare-bones advisory that urges all users to upgrade to version 3.2.12. The flaw, formally indexed as CVE-2014-0092, is described by a GnuTLS developer as "an important (and at the same time embarrassing) bug discovered during an audit for Red Hat." Debian's advisory is here.
his complaint about systemd has been widely echoed in the Linux world, with prominent contributors like Ingo Molnar, slamming the “excessively passive/aggressive” attitude of the project’s maintainers.
If you ignore requests you piss people off. Sounds like banning the guy was the right thing to do.
I would hope that an editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that.
An editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that. But this is 60 Minutes, not news.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
