Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Thursday 21 June 2007 09:33 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> [This was indirectly mentioned before in the form of obscure press releases]
>>>
>>> More than half of all German companies use Open Source
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | 80 percent of those surveyed said that the main benefit of Open Source was
>>> | that no licensing fees had to be paid. In addition, the companies used OSS
>>> | because they found it to be more flexible, because they wanted access to
>>> | the source code, because they use open platforms, and because they want to
>>> | be independent of proprietary providers such as Microsoft.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91447/from/rss09
>>
>> That's it - I'm moving to Germany.
>>
>> OTOH that'll mean I'll be living in the same country as Hardon Quirk.
>>
>> Erm ... OK, forget it.
>
> Maybe you can swap places. He came from Britland/Ireland anyway. Germany does
> not need people like him... heck, neither does Scotland. Thank goodness he has
> been gone for a while.
>
Okay, but there are more Germans than English, Irish or Scots - they
have more capacity to absorb him :-)
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