OK, so what shall we do to reverse the British Governments' ever upward ascent of Bill Gates rear, similar to that demonstrated by President Blair on Bush?
We have a Microsoft university in Cambridge only for Americans, surely that breaks discrimination laws, and the policy of only using Microsoft in schools is anti competitive and thus breaks European Law?
European government's have embraced open source, but alas the UK has not. Some of the electronic voting articles I have read prove very interesting, they are not geared to Linux, but to open software so they can be scrutinised as the current voting system is, again the government is not willing to look at this.
I've read the Times article - looks good, Linus does not look anywhere as stressed as gates! Perhaps Bill has been installing patches on his own PC! Get it if you can, make sure all the IT managers etc see it!
Time for positive action? Suggestions anyone.
I would like to start with a clearly well worded and clearly demonstrable case to remove MS Office in our schools in favor of Open Office for each MP in our area (Saving Money in education wins votes!) It should also be a short non technical non bias paper (if we can be non bias!). Then lets go for the jugular latter with Linux instead of Windows (think we need a few more revisions before we have good desktop).
I'll go for a draft, but my English and spelling are crap - anyone like to take up this challenge?
Neil.
PS I am a government funded site running Redhat 7.3!! Don't tell them!
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 13:11, Simon Jude wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Craig wrote:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=19+Jun+2003+05%3A15&a...
Really long url there guys but if you trust tinyurl...
Looks like *nix is spreading around!
There is also a big feature in the times business section today on Linux too.
Simon
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