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

Evan Leibovitch evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 3 17:21:40 UTC 2006


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>>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. 
>>
>People probably prefer that they focus on making trains go, on time, on
>the track and not into each other. :)
>  
>
That's why it's up to others to call attention to their choice of tech.
CN doesn't care that its use of open source helps demonstrate its
stability and mission-critical suitability to others, but advocates and
marketers certainly care.

- Evan
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