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Re: [News] Linux for Good Cause

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux for Good Cause
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:57:14 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1161243393.765079.100740@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1172188
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> SIPBox and Asterisk lower phone costs for
> children's agency
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The ECHO Joint Agreement agency serves exceptional
>| children in the Chicago public school district. With
>| offices in six separate locations, the agency was
>| spending a lot of money on phone service, until it
>| installed SIPBox's full service telephony solution,
>| based on Digium's open source Asterisk voice over
>| IP (VoIP) platform.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/2037223
> 

I've always thought that the order of adoption for FLOSS would be:

1) Charitable organisations
2) Government funded organisations (schools, police, etc.)
3) Government itself, local & then national
4) Businesses

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Department chairmen never die, they just lose their faculties.

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