Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Hadron wrote:
>> Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> ____/ Matt on Sunday 16 March 2008 16:35 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Linonut wrote:
>>>>>> * Matt peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Matt wrote:
>>>>>>>> I don't know whether anyone's posted this yet.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Florian Schiessl of Munich IT should have reported by now on Munich's
>>>>>>>> progress at a conference in Bern.
>>>>>>> Here is his slide show (in German)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.openexpo.ch/fileadmin/documents/2008Bern/Slides/25.pdf
>>>>>> There's a another 50 documents here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.openexpo.ch/fileadmin/documents/2008Bern/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I read German too painfully slow to be useful, sigh.
>>>>> Use Evince or other pdf reader to select-all and copy the whole document
>>>>> to the clipboard, then paste it into the babelfish.com window.
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't seem to work with acroread because that reader only lets
>>>>> you select one page at a time, unless I am wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Munich site has a version in English:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
>>>>> of which I provide an excerpt:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The first year LiMux in Munich
>>>>>> Status quo of the LiMux project
>>>>>> 1000 work stations migrated to LiMux
>>>>>> 6000 work stations using OpenOffice.org
>>>>>> > 90% work stations using Firefox and Thunderbird
>>>>> Since they migrated 1000 workstations to Linux in one year, any simple
>>>>> fool can tell you it will take them 14 years to migrate all 14,000
>>>>> workstations.
>>>> It's not quite the case. In the first year they would have to look for or to
>>>> port applications to Linux (that's what they wrote somewhere). Also, Linux
>>>> evolves all the time (Wine, for example, improves), so the beginning is the
>>>> slowest.
>>> You were not supposed to give a serious reply.
>>
>> The worst thing is that Roy is serious. He thinks (despite having zero
>> industry experience himself) that he is teaching you something.
>
> Roy works to brings news that helps us all learn a lot every day.
>
> Now if we could just get some Linux-deniers to admit that Linux adoption
> is not a linear phenomenon ... seems like you just have---it's a start ...
>
Quark is here to promote an agenda. Part of that is criticising Roy at
every turn. He's not going to "admit" anything unless his instructions
tell him to.
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