__/ [ 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.
Best wishes,
Roy
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