Yet Another reason to use linux...

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Friday 30 March 2007, Pavel Zaitsev wrote:
[snip]
> Its nice however to see that government is very positive about
> Linux deployment. Regards,

Which government(s)? I haven't seen much evidence at the municipal, 
provincial, or federal level of being pro open source. In fact, based 
upon conversations I had with senior Treasury Board civil servants a 
couple of years ago when the province was running "How to do Business 
With the Ontario Government" workshops, I got the impression that 
they were quite dismissive of open source and had the "if it was any 
good, they would charge money for it" attitude that I've seen in some 
business people. They use open source but it's really incidental and 
accidental, certainly not through deliberate policy.

Governments everywhere but in English-speaking countries seem to be 
embracing open source. One example would be the Turkish government. 
It has taken the unusual step of not only favouring the use of open 
source but actively funding over a dozen people working full-time on 
the Pardus <http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html> Linux 
distribution. You can read a recent review here: 
<http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2441>. I haven't tried Pardus 
yet but it looks very appealing.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
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Toronto, ON
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