Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Sunday 16 December 2007 19:06 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that peterwn spake thusly:
>>> On Dec 16, 2:45 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Birmingham might buy thousands of XO Laptop computers for students
>>>> in grades one through eight
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oops, I thought you meant the *real* Birmingham, you know, the one
>>> where Brums (like me) come from.
>>
>> I'm afraid that *your* Birmingham has rather a different reputation when
>> it comes to deploying Linux. The city council's botched Linux deployment
>> of 05/06 was one of the worst examples of incompetence in the history of
>> British local government. As Mark Taylor (of the Open Source Consortium)
>> put it - "I have no idea how anyone could spend half a million pounds on
>> 200 desktops, running free software." Yes ... quite.
>
> They didn't bring in any people with knowledge of GNU/Linux. It's not just Mark
> who criticised the incompetence.
>
Local councils are hardly paradigms of competence and efficiency,
though. Lack of integration experience can make even the simplest
programmes fail. Of course, deliberate actions can also achieve the
same thing.
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