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Re: [LUG] Economist view on FLOSS

 

It could make the HHS noticeably more efficient and a little leaner


>>hptextfeature
>>
>> (Access is free)
>>
>> Ewords, despite
>> claims to the distributed
>> free online, was initially dismissed as the plaything of nerdy
>> hobbyists. Big software firms derided the  collectives.
>> Was it really secure? Whom would you call if it went wrong?
>



> agreed. MS and several others will fight their last fight to prevent any
> standards for interchange to be defined. With these standards we will be
> able
> to things we used to do before MS and XML came along  - half the staff in
> companies will dissapear as my pc will talk to your pc and no need for
> people
> to compose documents to send to others to print out read and type in!
> ISO will be a bloodbath....
>
> Tom te tom te tom
>
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