Re: [LUG] Bristol Council moving to StarOffice

[Tom Brough <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Trevena wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just read 
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html?page=2
>
> and thought.. 'if only cornwall county council had a fraction of that clue'.
>
> Bristol of course, has frozen council tax, while Cornwall County
> Council has yet another rise of over twice inflation...
>
> I wonder how much Devon and Cornwall Council would benefit from moving
> to Star/OpenOffice..
>
> Having seen parish council staff paying to get copying and stapling
> done Staples rather than do it themselves, I think their laziness is
> probably costing us a fortune.
>
> I have yet to hear a single positive word about any council down here
> (cornwall) - CCC is shockingly awful - their website still requires IE
> to apply for jobs (after 3 years of being a beta), and they seem
> intent on killing newquay airport (no morning stansted flights, no
> malaga flights), while lavishing generous expenses on councillors.
>
> I've heard all kinds of second hand rumours about their IT competance,
> and what I've seen of them makes it entirely believable that they are
> wasting a fortune.
>
> A.
>
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Actually in some places Cornwall is ahead of the game 
http://uk.sun.com/sunnews/success/public_sector/22.html.

HOWEVER please note carefully :-

I am free software advocate.

Im also a council worker.

Please restrain you comments as you will not win over hearts and minds 
to free software model if you continue to accuse  the very people you 
are trying to convert of being lazy. You are not doing the free software 
community any favours here ......

Thank you that is all

Tom.
Dedicated to the Local Community
Dedicated to the Free Software Community
Dedicated to the establishment of  FLOSS facilities for the Educational 
Communities of Davao City Philippines & Kumbo Cameroon
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