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Story: OpenOffice makes government inroads

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The more users put in the more users get out of open source software.

I hope that all the government bodies switching to open source software are planning on contributing atleast something back to the commuial software initatives.

The whole open source software philosophy revolves around users and other intereasted people/parties volunteering time and code to the communial effort of creating better, more robust software.

This is easily done as if each large body contributes only a tiny fraction of the amount they currently/previously paid to Microsoft then open source software like OpenOffice will continue to get better and better rather than the innovation hitting a brick wall as happens with most Microsoft and other proprietry software as soon as the 'minimum work done at which customers will buy the software' milestone is reached.

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