____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 28 February 2008 15:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> The Ministry of Finance in the Republic of Macedonia uses Debian GNU Linux
>> in its servers
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Miroslav Jovanovic, former head of Macedonian Ministry of Finance IT
>>| department, gave an overview of the Open Source utilisation at desktops and
>>| servers during a conference organized by the United Nations Development
>>| Programme at the capital Skopje in 2007.
>> `----
>>
>> http://times.debian.net/1221
>>
>> Linux has quietly grown enormously in the country (examples below), at the
>> expense of Windows.
>
> We were talking about a wiki entry for which countries have adopted
> linux in some form of their government or related public agencies. The
> question is soon going to be easier to address by asking "which
> countries have not adopted linux... "
Is Redmond a country yet? It has an army of lobbyists and it controls parts of
Parliament (Congress rather). It even blackmails foreign prime ministers. ;-)
FWIW, even in Redmond (Microsoft campus) there is a lot of Linux. Microsoft
couldn't keep that secret.
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