On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:22 am, you wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:01, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > This thread is preaching to the converted. > > Indeed it is, but I think it's not out of order to tell the converted that > 'A little bird has told me' that they are just beginning to twig-on to the > open source way. Remember that, for NZ, they are quite a large software > house which up until now has been ideologically ( and probably > contractually too ) trapped in the Microsoft Way. However my little bird > has been gently demonstrating the power of the free world. Remember it > takes quite a long time for a bunch of pretty conservative PHBs to work out > how to convert software freedom into hard cash. To say nothing of > persuading the staff, 99% of whom have never touched *BSD or Linux, that > this upstart o/s produced by a bunch of undisciplined longhaireds is > actually worth considering at all.
Well, start with Free/Open Source Software that runs on Windows, stuff like OpenOffice.org and OpenWatcom, etc. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
