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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 13 August 2006 08:34 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Environment Ministry seeks open source solution
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>>>| As part of a swathe of changes it's making to its web presence the
>>>| Ministry for the Environment has gone to tender for an open source
>>>| content management system.
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> http://m-net.net.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=506&Itemid=373
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>> I wonder what the expression is for when something is "running down the
>> other side" after passing the tipping point. FLOSS certainly appears to
>> be doing this now.
>
> Are you thinking about the term "cusp"? I don't OSS it has passed it yet.
Not what I was after, although personally, I'd say that Floss is well
beyond the cusp, myself.
> But
> it's just about there. ODF, OLPC and Ubuntu do some real magic at the
> moment. But sheesh. Microsoft spends a lot of money hiding this from the
> press, as well as people's minds. Similarly, Windows advocates and user love
> to think that if Linux was popular, it would have had viruses and Malware.
> Microsoft would /like/ people to believe that, too. How convenient. What an
> investment-worthy FUD.
>
> http://librenix.com/?inode=21
I don't think that they press will be fooled for all that much longer.
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Ernest asks Frank how long he has been working for the company.
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