____/ [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.
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