Yet Another reason to use linux...

[James Knott]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> 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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