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Summary

Early draft

This page lists the benefits for Governments and Public Administrations

• Effectively free to acquire - good value for money proposition to voters
• No licence/compliance hassles
• Can be given away free to government employees, through the schools system, etc
• OpenOffice.org is not ‘owned’ by one commercial organisation - demonstrates impartiality towards particular vendors
• Easy to migrate if an existing (possibly less than fully licenced) Microsoft site
• Easy to publish documents in 'read-only' format with built-in pdf support
• Freedom of Information Acts require long term access to data - this is guaranteed through ISO OpenDocument Format support
• Likely to be available in your language - easy to translate into local minority languages
• Open source means that there are no secrets, back doors, etc hidden in the software at the request of foreign governments