__/ [ Jim ] on Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:25 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ Jim ] on Tuesday 18 July 2006 14:17 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Tuesday 18 July 2006 09:59 \__
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 03:55 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Open Source Software Will Grow Fastest in Government Sector Says
>>>>>> Report
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> | "This is the same kind of aggressive growth that we saw in the early
>>>>>> | days of Linux," adds McCarthy. "There is reason to believe that this
>>>>>> | growth will continue past 2010, making both traditional and
>>>>>> | government coordinated open source projects a force to be reckoned
>>>>>> | with in the next decade. Government agencies are now developing
>>>>>> | their own open code repositories, and also working with system
>>>>>> | integrators to develop new government-specific open source
>>>>>> | solutions."
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060717114508775
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh indeedy. I keep saying the same - government and government
>>>>> agencies, including education.
>>>>> As Mark will understand, "...as I said at the Brighton conference...."!
>>>>
>>>> Interesting point. A thought that just cropped to my mind: governments
>>>> and businesses employ people and people can take their software home
>>>> (their turf, their 'playground'). This rarely works the other way around
>>>> though. A person whose home O/S is Linux might not be able to bring it
>>>> to work and work fully isolated from IT's prescribed preferences.
>>>
>>> Why not? I do. It's very, very rare that I even see a MS-Windows box now.
>>> And I'm bloody happy at that.
>>
>> Same here, but ask some regulars in this group, whose
>> employer has installed some CMS with ActiveX pre-requisites.
>> Sure, one can emulate IE, but it's far from ideal. Then
>> comes the issue of specialised applications that are only
>> available for Windows (again, emulation is not the ideal
>> route). I think I touched a Windows machine for about 5
>> minutes in the past 3 months. I washed and rinsed (twice!)
>> afterwards. I could still feel that itch... bugs, virii
>> (sic)... most of these 5 minutes involved shutting balloons
>> and telling Windows update to sod off. I just needed to copy
>> one file to my card reader.
>
> and you needed Windows for that?? :\
The file was not mine. It contained some macro (PowerPoint presentation). I
have not used PowerPoint since I was a teenager (about 15), I think. At
work, I don't get exposed to Windows. If the user sticks with Windows, it's
likely to be a virus disconnection (no hands-on). If it's a Mac user, on the
other hand, the issue might be finding a neighbour who knows the platform or
find a detailed-enough list of instructions. As Shuttleworth just said in an
interview:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1061
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| The widespread availability of technical support is perhaps the
| biggest barrier to Linux adoption by the mainstream, Shuttleworth
| said.
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Best wishes,
Roy
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