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____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 16:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 12:13 : \____
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>>>
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 03 Jan 2010 14:52 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>> Mark Kent pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> GNU/Linux Migration in Munich is in Good Shape
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>>| There is an end-of-2009 article by Floschi
>>>>>>>>| that shows the migration has overcome all the
>>>>>>>>| obstacles and made good progress:
>>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>>| * 2500 GNU/Linux clients spread over all
>>>>>>>>| 12 departments
>>>>>>>>| * 20000 ODF templates produced and ODF is
>>>>>>>>| the standard format for documents
>>>>>>>>| * FLOSS apps everywhere in use daily
>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://pogson.6k.ca/2009/12/31/gnulinux-migration-in-munich-is-in-good-shape/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's a really impressive performance, well done the Munich folk. One
>>>>>>> wonders if they might be willing to share some of their 20,000 templates
>>>>>>> for the wider ODF community - this could be another area where the FOSS
>>>>>>> approach could be a winner for everyone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One can see Microsoft's influence retreating, just like any decaying
>>>>>>> empire.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like 2010 will be a great year in Munich. The difficulty of
>>>>>> the migration shows how great is the hold on IT due to monopoly. It
>>>>>> shows that there is no time better than the present to escape
>>>>>> monopoly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Munich will become the poster-child for the FOSS world. I had
>>>>> thought that FOSS would take off first in relatively less developed
>>>>> economies, however, I'd not considered Microsoft's willingness to bribe
>>>>> their way back into such places - there have been several examples in
>>>>> Africa, afairc, either directly by Microsoft or by the "charitable"
>>>>> Gates Foundation, indirectly, but in each case, decisions to use FOSS
>>>>> have been reversed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Presumably, Munich isn't quite so tight for cash that it would find, or
>>>>> indeed, would have found, a quick "gift" appealing...
>>>>>
>>>>> No wonder Microsoft are advertising for "anti Linux" people.
>>>>
>>>> Gates is also trying to monopolise African agriculture, with Monsanto,
>>>> which he invests in. He pushes for this along with Rockefeller, under the
>>>> banner "Green Revolution" (euphemism for slavery).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Make sure you only eat organic food in the US - GM food is not labelled
>>> as such, so you could be consuming anything. Further, the factorisation
>>> of meat production is such that one beefburger will contain parts of
>>> thousands of animals; the potential for disease is staggering, and
>>> there have been several recalls of millions of "meat products" over the
>>> last few years, as well as some people (including young kids) getting
>>> exceptionally nasty forms of food poisoining, some of which kill in just
>>> a few days - there is no cure.
>>>
>>> Organic is safe, however.
>>
>> The Royal Family apparently eats just organic.
>>
>
> Me too :-) At least, whenever possible, anyway. Food production in the
> UK has its problems, too, although we do not, as a matter of course,
> have unlabelled GM products, and I do not believe that we have anything
> like as few slaughterhouses as the US major producers use, even so,
> though, it pays to be careful with one's health.
>
> I get a meat & veg box from Riverford every week, and then top up other
> goods from Ocado. Ocado's warehousing was featured on TV before xmas,
> as it's amazingly automated, thus exceedingly "green". Tesco and
> Sainsbury both pick stock from the supermarket shelves, whereas Ocado
> (Waitrose) don't take it to the supermarket and then back out again.
> Much more sane, and mostly likely rather less damaged, too.
>
> Still, organic food costs more than chemically processed food, so it's
> possibly out of reach for many people, although growing it in your
> garden probably isn't. One chap at work used to grow a lot of veg in
> his window boxes around his flat, amazingly.
For organic meat, the safe bet is fish. It might run out within less than 50 years,
according to recent research.
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