Latest tricks won’t spoil open source treats
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| As for the open source skeptics who continue to doubt open source can make
| money or serve as a sustainable business model, they should remain scared.
| With that kind of thinking, whether at an ages-old proprietary vendor or SAAS
| startup, they are likely to be replaced soon. Open source is knocking on your
| door. Trick or treat.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/30/latest-tricks-wont-spoil-open-source-treats/
US federal government wasting billions on buggy, risky software
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| Governments should not lock themselves into proprietary software
| straitjackets unless there is no viable open-source option. Period.
| Democratic governments have a duty to their citizens to own their IT, and not
| have private-sector vendors effectively owning mass quantities of citizens'
| data. Several years ago there was not enough open-source software to be able
| to make this sort of demand, but today there is.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9807343-16.html?tag=head
That's the same old kickbacks manoeuvre. Buying software from your friends, at
the taxpayers' expense. Ask the MSBBC and BECTA.
Related:
A Call To Accountability
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| Not only do you have Teachers and Administrators who are protecting Microsoft
| (isn't money wonderful?), you have System Administrators and Network
| Technicians that lock their heels on any movement to change the system to
| FOSS. Between job security, laziness and politics, Microsoft has fairly well
| assured itself a solid and substantial place in the United States educational
| system.
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| [...]
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| It's your money. You've paid dearly for our public school system and you have
| the right to know how many millions the schools are putting into the pockets
| of Bill Gates. Wouldn't that money be better used to educate our kids?
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/347-A-Call-To-Accountability.html
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