The Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reports (La Norvegia verso il software libero) that the Norwegian Government is embracing OpenOffice, the open source counterpart to Microsoft's Office suite. The article says that the Norwegian government will no longer buy Office from Microsoft, but switch to OpenOffice. The initiative has been funded by 225000 Euro.
However, this is probably no exactly what the Norwegian government have done. According to Dagens IT and the translation provided by LinuxBSDos, "Minister Heidi Grande Røys allocate two million to the development of solutions to adapt public agencies Functionality specific solutions and archives to OpenOffice, a free alternative to office software as Microsoft Office." The funding of 2 million NOK will be administered by Friprog and allocated to several OpenOffice adoption projects.
This news have generated a lot of headlines all over the world, for example in New Zeland Herald and San Francisco Chronicle
LinuxBSDos wraps it up by saying "Minister Heidi Grande Røys (pictured above) is a very smart Minister and she’s good looking, too. Please send a bunch of flowers to the Norwegian embassy in your country with her name attached to it. Tell them why you are sending it."
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bisognerebbe trovare un sistema per spillare qualcuna di queste 225000 cocuzze. son seria. e tutti i soldi che non danno a microsoft a chi li danno?
Per ora danno sempre soldi a microsoft.
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