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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 18 Sep 2011 12:36 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment
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>>| Userful deploys Linux in very large-scale "digital inclusion" projects ???
>>| such as schools in second- and third-world environments ??? including the
>>| world's largest, a 500,000 seat deployment in Brazil.
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>> https://lwn.net/Articles/455972/
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> But:
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> Where open source is silently ceding the field
>
> Yet despite those mandates, he said, Microsoft Windows often ends up
> ultimately getting deployed instead. There are many reasons why,
> including lobbying efforts, entrenched players, politics, and money.
> But the troubling part is that the open source community has no
> response to these gambits, even when they are based entirely on FUD
> and distortion. The major commercial Linux distributions (Red Hat,
> SUSE, etc.) put no effort into competing for green field
> deployments, and offer no on-the-ground field support to those who
> lobby and bid for the contracts.
>
> There is not an easy solution; what is needed to improve the
> situation includes better coverage of the large-scale success stories
> to counteract FUD and even outright lack-of-knowledge. Griffin told
> an audience member that there are many non-governmental organizations
> (NGOs) working in impoverished nations that run Windows on their
> computers solely because they have no idea that Linux even exists. In
> fact, he added, they pay full price for their licenses, when they
> could save considerable money just by telling Microsoft they were
> considering Linux and getting a steep discount in return.
Microsoft is not a technology company, it's a mindset or a movement, :-)
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