____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 12 July 2007 08:01 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 11 July 2007 14:11 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Open source take-up booming in APAC
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in
>>>>| Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent
>>>>| IDC survey.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Open-source-take-up-booming-in-APAC/0,130061733,339279806,00.htm
>>>>
>>>> Ouch. They didn't Get the Facts, did they?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is interesting, as we've seen several stories indicating that
>>> take-up of open-source in Asia and Australasia had been poor indeed.
>>> There is a huge problem with trying to work out open-source usage, as
>>> nobody ever has to admit to it.
>>>
>>> I wonder, now, if usage is maybe an order of magnitude higher than is
>>> realised?
>>
>>
>> I wrote the following the other day and it even made Slashdot. It explains
>> why Linux count is grossly biased.
>>
>> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3687616
>>
>
> Good article, well done Sir!
>
> (queue Quark for some abuse at this point).
It took me a short time to just write this up from a skeleton of points and
they pay me for it. I'm hoping to put up my interview with Mark Shuttleworth
up on the Web soon.
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