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On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 23:01, Tony Atkin wrote:
The BBC have put up a nice friendly article about Linux going mainstream at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3436289.stm
One of the social science (LETS schemes) mailing lists picked out what could be one of the most significant political points (political as in public interest and commonweal) for the adoption of open source/free software, which could sorely do with development in linux/open/free s/w advocacy. HOW much has Microsoft leached out of Britain's economy, directly and via knock on effects/loss of multipliers? And "we" are giving the sod responsible a effing KNIGHTHOOD????? As someone once called it 300 or more years ago - who dares call it treason when traitors doth prosper... Anyway I bring this excerpt to your attention: " "If you spend a dollar with a local company working on Linux, that dollar stays in your economy," said Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems. "When you spend a dollar with a multi-national corporation as a license fee for a piece of software, that dollar leaves your country." "It's about keeping the money in your local economy, developing skills and developing the local economy to be strong in its own right in a global context." -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.