Question for TLUGgers: How can Canada take a leading role in FOSS?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 02:04:55PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Vendors such as IBM do publish success stories. However, the reality is 
> that most companies don't care to call attention to themselves in areas 
> that are not related to their core business. You don't hear about what 
> brand of vehicles FedEx chooses for its fleet even though that is 
> extremely important information in some sectors.

Well the supplier might make a big deal out of getting the contract to
supply them.  And you could just look at their vehicles to tell who
makes them.

> CN is a railroad, not an IT company. They stand very little to gain from 
> publicity about their choice of Linux, unless they have a deliberate 
> interest in being seen as an innovator. (And, thanks to the growth of 
> open source, these days using Linux is not the "innovation" it used to 
> be :-) )

People probably prefer that they focus on making trains go, on time, on
the track and not into each other. :)

> The community needs to take the initiative to identify these users. If 
> anyone is interested in helping collect Canadian open source success 
> stories, let me know. There are certainly ways to publicize this.

Len Sorensen
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