I can't speak for the US Govt, but I speak for a local government. We use open source everywhere. My departments PBX is Asterisk, Fileservers, Webservers, we use Linux everywhere. In my dealings with the State of TX they are adopting open source for some very mission critical applications. If you wonder about opensource and Govt go read GCN. They talk all about it. There's a place for both Windows and opensource. If you can't do both, or work around either one on either platform you are too narrow minded.
I sit here sending you this e-mail on my laptop running Windows XP, through my Exchange server running Windows 2000, that goes to my Linux mail gateway running Postfix to relay the mail outbound. Be more open minded, Windows isn't going away, and neither is open source software. Learn to deal with it. -Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl J. Vesterling Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 7:46 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Linux and Windows At 06:51 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote: [snip for brevity[ � So the U.S. Govt has never used linux anywhere? Wow. Not in most installations, and definitely not in DoD facilities. The "Office of Inspector General" has deemed open source to be "Verboten". That's going to become an interesting situation when Solaris goes open source... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1647198,00.asp Question: Why isn't there a commercial solution available in some cases? Answer: What company in their right mind would engineer a competing product to a solution that costs $0.00 ??? � Again making the mistake that open source equates non-commercial. Once again...� The Office of Inspector General has deemed (any and all) open-source to be forbidden. Whether it be commercial of non-commercial open-source software it's forbidden. Best Regards, Karl J. Vesterling E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo Messenger: karl_vesterling ICQ: 1548052 AOL Instant Messenger: n2vqm Telephone: Washington DC: (202) 448-3009 Extension 0 Annapolis MD: (240) 524-6706 Extension 0 Seattle WA: (360) 516-1822 Extension 0 Niagara Falls NY: (716) 286-9175 Extension 0 Buffalo NY: (716) 608-1121 Extension 0 United Kingdom: 0870 3403428 Extension 0 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
