On 2/18/06, Tek Budda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robert Lewko wrote:
> Ya know... America is going down because they are not willing to
> change! The leaders, especially the Busheoveks, are so tied to the
> Great Monopolist that they can see nothing else. Other countries that
> have the perspective that they can innovate (as opposed to what Bill
> Gates laughingly refers to as innovation) will leave the US in the dust.
Sad to say but this could include us as well. Remember that we are so
closely tied to the US in a lot of things that we almost don't have a
choice but to stick with proprietary-ware. Like it or not the US is our
biggest trading partner and we have to maintain compatibility with them.
That being said, we have a huge opportunity here. As a nation we are so
much more over-skilled, over-qualified and more technologically advanced
than the Americans. If we could harness that and move that raft of
qualifications and drive into open source we could become significant
leaders (even more than we are now) in the new economy. Our problem is
that we have to much bureaucracy in Ottawa and not enough marketing
clout to be able to make huge inroads.
> When industry here and the US pay billions for software, pay qurdruple
> for administration of that software than linux, then billions more to
> get rid of the viruses and spyware it has to make a difference to the
> bottom line.
Look at any big industry and government in Canada and we are essentially
the same...unfortunately.
> On another topic; yesterday I used nvu to create some HTML. I even had
> an external CSS file. That is a great HTML editor. Thanks for pointing
> me to it.
Kudos to Nvu & Linspire for sponsoring it. I am using it to design my
wedding website and have the protable version installed on my USB stick
and have it installed on my machine at work. I love Nvu....and
FrontPage just sucks!
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