cold water on linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 04/23/04 15:09, Joel Hammer wrote:
...
>>software verboten. But, what to replace it? I sometimes
>>wonder why such govt's don't just buy up wordperfect and
>>quattropro, etc, and make all their govt workers (1/4th
>>of French workers, for example), use it. Make wordperfect
>>open source, even. Anything to beat back the encroachment
>>of MS proprietary software. I think people just take the
>>easiest way.
>
>Israel, China and many European cities already are requiring Star Office 
>or OpenOffice.  Some more enlightened US municipal governments are doing 
>the same.

Several years ago we had convinced several of the local community colleges
to go with Linux for their e-mail infrastructure based on security,
reliability, and cost.  The politicos squashed the plan though because they
were afraid that Microsoft would make life difficult for them (not to
mention the number of Microsoft employees in this area :-).

Bill
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