Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 ;-)
That's probably the biggest and best known hub, but there's a lot of software stuff clustered around Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath (telecomms-related), Norwich/S.Norfolk (animation and engineering in particular) and south Bedfordshire. In general, software and electronic publishing is "the largest of the creative industries in the East of England and a clear specialism of the region, which is home to many of the UK's main software houses as well as a host of SMEs." (East of England Creative Industries: Advice and Analysis, DTZ Pieda Consulting and City University London, for Living East). > > 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. [...] Sure, that's the point: this isn't aimed at developers who know what's going on with software licensing. Not to take away anything from London, but just like the UK Patent Office's infamous "not a consultation" software patent consultations, these events aren't aimed at software developers, else they'd visit the East of England too. Regards, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
