On Monday 08 November 2004 13:01, Laurie Miles wrote:
> Adrian, unless you can singlehandedly
why singlehandedly?
> change the NHS policy regarding MS/OSS software
which is what, by the way, and differs form the national policy as set out
last week by the OGC among others how?
And compares with the EU policy in what ways?
A starter for any student is that the NHS acronym is the same as the
Government one and is FLOSS Free/Libre and Open Source Software.
> (and there is no sign that I can see that you have done
> that at a national level to any significant extent)
But have you looked?
> then the OSS soapbox on
> which you evangelise so much is not achieving anything.
Tell me the market share of the open source web browsers compared to the
closed source ones.
(and no, not me on that one, but then there is no reason why I should be set
up to take on the closed source lobbies singlehandedly, when i t is more
suitable for me to demonstrate and report).
There are possibly more developers for applications (open and closed) on Linux
now than there are for Windows. If the report that this crossover had
occurred recently was premature or dealt with a skewed population, wait a
while, because it is coming soon.
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Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
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