Another Open Source Move

In a cost cutting measure, the city of Los
Angleles is proposing to drop MS Office in exchange for the open source Open
Office, for a proposed savings of $5.2 million.

First
Brazil, Now L.A.

I, myself,  have installed Open Office on
our home computer.  I mean, why bother pirating Office when the open source one
is free, right?  My wife has been using it for weeks with no complaints and this
is significant to me because it means that a typical non-power computer user can live
with this software and be productive.

Open Source software is becoming more mature, that’s for sure.  It isn’t just
for nerds anymore.