[NTLUG:Discuss] City of Austin moving 80% of desktops to Open Office

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Robert Citek wrote:

> More importantly, how did they do what they did?  In that way, other 
> LUGs could follow their lead in persuading their local governments (from 
> neighborhood associations to cities to state offices) to also evaluate 
> Open Source solutions.  I looked for that in the article and on the 
> AustinLUG webpage (http://austinlug.org/), but no luck.  Anyone see a 
> URL that I might have missed?

In the comments:

  	I suspect this was done in response to audit (Score:0)
by Anonymous Reader on 2003.12.17 11:30 (#82041)
Not long ago the city got to go through a shakedown by the BSA. After 
having to pony up unexpected millions of dollars, one really does learn 
to appreciate software that isn't going to require license tracking. 
People have better things to do with their time than going through a 
discovery process of exactly where every piece of software came from on 
every machine gathering dust in closets.

> Regards,
> - Robert

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