__/ [ 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
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>> | "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."
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>> 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.
Best wishes,
Roy
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