Re: [Sheflug] BBC Report on Open Source

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forwarded from Robin Rowe... 

> 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,

Don't forget the London film industry. Linux is predominant at British 
visual effects companies such as Double Negative and CFC Framestore. 
It's used for making such British icons as the James Bond and Harry 
Potter films.

Robin
www.movieeditor.com

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