On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 07:27 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Once again, "the East of England, Europe's hotbed for innovation > in science, technology and research" which already "has the > highest per capita expenditure on R&D in the UK" is ignored.
Isn't that just that Cambridge is in the East of England ;-) > Does that suggest the target audience for these events aren't > the firms who are developing Free Software, but the big city > commercial suppliers who will just trade in popular packages > and want to avoid doing any compensation work to repair errors > in the software they deploy, if they can avoid it? Its probably aimed at suppliers and distributors primarily because they are the ones that are taking the "risk" - that is assuming that there is any more significant risk than with proprietary stuff. If you want to fill up a seminar, London is the place to do it. Seems to me that filling the seminar is probably the over-riding factor but let's not let that get in the way of some interesting conspiracy theories :-) -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
