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<title>Moving our public administration towards trust, facts and confidence</title>
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<h1>Moving our public administration towards trust, facts and confidence</h1>
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<p>
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Otto Kekäläinen, the Finnish FSFE country team coordinator, gave a talk in Berlin about
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the case regarding some of the major cities in Finland, which are considering using LibreOffice.</p>
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<p>As he stated during his speech, which was part of the Berlin 2012 LibreOffice Conference
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"I assume most of us don't like the idea of paying taxes to governments so that
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they then spend them on closed source software and ship truckloads of money to
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the USA, Ireland or some tax heaven. Also I assume the idea of denying local business
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opportunities and limiting the governments own freedoms in computing is not anything
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any politician has on their agenda." </p>
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<p>That was the situation in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku, where there have been city council
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initiatives to increase the use of LibreOffice and other Free Software. How ever none of these
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initiatives has so far been executed out.</p>
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<p>Kekäläinen asked himself and the audience, why is there not everybody starting to use LibreOffice
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now when several pioneers, among others the Ministry of Justice in Finland, have shown it is both
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economically and technically a good move. He concluded that one of the reasons is Microsoft:
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"I am not trying to be politically correct,
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when we speak about LibreOffice and it's competitors, there
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is really only one enemy, and that is Microsoft", Kekäläinen said. As it was to be expected, he gave his
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reasons for making that statement, as well as several documented and referenced
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examples to conclude that the LibreOffice community has failures in communication. For example the success cases are not well
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documented, while Microsoft excels at public communications. And, in particular this company uses
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the fabricated Total Cost of Ownership calculations to claim that moving to
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LibreOffice is not economical, despite all government organizations that have made the
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move report significant savings, up to 70%. </p>
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<p>Finally, Kekäläinen urged the LibreOffice community to resist the Fear, Uncertainty
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and Doubt tactis used by Microsoft by spreading trust,
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facts and confidence.</p>
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<p>The presentation is available for download:
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<li> <a href= "/fi/projects/libreoffice/Web%20version%20with%20notes%20-%20Dirty%20tactics%20against%20LibreOffice%20in%20public%20administration,%20and%20how%20to%20overcome%20them.pdf" >Slides and notes</a>
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<li> <a href= "/fi/projects/libreoffice/Web%20version%20slides%20only%20-%20Dirty%20tactics%20against%20LibreOffice%20in%20public%20administration,%20and%20how%20to%20overcome%20them.pdf">Slides only </a>
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</li>
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</p>
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<link>http://conference.libreoffice.org/</link>
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