The developer argued on the discussion of the city council that "I should stop free LibreOffice and return to paid Windows and Office"

ByTapaponga

Those bundled office software such as Word and Excel (Office suite) Microsoft Office is widely known, but as a free office suiteLibreOfficeEtc, so you do not necessarily need to use a charged one.There are government agencies and enterprises actually introducedHowever, in Munich City which is one of them, there is a movement to return to the paid office suite because it is "a lot of problems", and a non-profit organization that is the developer of LibreOfficeThe Document Foundation」Has released objections on the official website.

Statement by The Document Foundation about the upcoming discussion at the City of Munich to step back to Windows and MS Office
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/14/statement-by-the-document-foundation-about-the-upcoming-discussion-at-the-city-of-munich-to-step-back-to-windows-and-ms-office/


In Munich City, in 2003, the 10-year plan to switch OS from Windows NT to Linux was formulated. The office suite has also moved from Microsoft Office to open source Office.

Münchener Rathaus-SPD entscheidet sich für Linux [Update] | heise online
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Muenchener-Rathaus-SPD-entscheidet-sich-fuer-Linux-Update-79651.html

The plan succeeded successfully. Initially, "12,000 desktop machinesLiMuxIn fact, 15,500 desktop machines were in operation, of which 14,400 were switched to LiMux. LiMux is Linux customized for Munich city (with a theory of Ubuntu's custom version), LibreOffice and extensionsWollMuxHas been introduced.

Munich open source switch 'completed successfully' | IT Leadership | CIO UK
http://www.cio.co.uk/it-leadership/munich-open-source-completed-successfully-3493627/

However, when Mayor Dieter Writer elected in 2014 got coverage of the city's internal paper "Stadtbild" immediately after winning"I was surprised at the transition to open source," denied the 10-year plan. Deputy mayor of Joseph Schmidt alsoI pick up the voice of city officials that I feel pain in using LiMuxIt was.

At this point the city council supported LiMux, but in 2015 the mayor of the mayor's party ·German Social Democratic PartyWhenChristian society allianceFrom CongressmanVoice asks to return the environment to WindowsBecome.

And Mayor Writers instructed Microsoft's partner consulting company, Accenture, to prepare a report on Munich's IT infrastructure. This report has been made public on the net, so that anyone can see it.

Externes IT Gutachten Untersuchung der IT der Landeshauptstadt München (LHM)
(PDF file)https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/SITZUNGSVORLAGE/4277724.pdf


The Document Foundation, the developer of LibreOffice, said, "The era of transparency of open data and political decision making, I am pleased that the report is open to the general public," and refuses to the mayors etc using this report We are doing.

In the report, 18% to 28% of users are plagued by problems from LibreOffice, depending on the application, which is perhaps believed to be resolved by transitioning to Microsoft Office. However, at the same time, 15% of problems originating from Microsoft Office are known to be reported.

Moreover, it is cutting also in terms of money. The Munich City Council discusses proposals from the "minority city council member" that "Install Windows 10 and Microsoft Office 2016 on all workstations by 2020", but if this proposal goes through , The burden of paying taxpayers is nearly 90 million euros (about 10.9 billion yen) in 6 years.

Representatives of the Greens party pointed out that there is a PC called "upgrade is necessary to run Windows 10 even if it is enough to run LiMux", and it is estimated that the expenses will cost even 15 million euros (about 1.8 billion yen) It is taken.

In the first place, the city of Munich promoted "open source" was not only the problem of money, there was also the aspect that "interoperability is required for standard document format". For this reason, the Document Foundation points out that reverting to Microsoft Office from now on will ignore policies being advanced in countries such as the UK, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Taiwan and others.

The mayor and the deputy mayor are both open-source opponents, and the city council is in a state where majority political parties are going against open source, so if you go back to it, it is likely that "returning to Microsoft" will be realized, Is it possible to do ... ?.