Re: [Sheflug] BBC Report on Open Source

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard:
> > You regularly find yourself across the table from a Swiss banker
> > who wants to know about GNU/Linux or OpenBSD projects.  England
> > is peculiar in that only winduhs is known about.
Steve:
> One thing that stuck out on this '131,000 programmer years'.
> Thats quite an achievement I think!

The real numbers are much more than that.  Then there's the crass 
attitude of British corporate management you could think about.   In 
this case the British stock exchange opted for M$ software when 
places like Wall Street and Hollywood are completely running on 
GNU/Linux and the General Public Licence and the Gnome desktop.... 
for example..

http://www.sheflug.org.uk/linuxmovies.html




-- 
Richard

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