Brian, I would add my voice, which may not be well taken on this forum, but a section on where FOSS may not be competitive against Proprietary solutions because of training shortage, usability, rollout issues, performance, end user resistance, and integration issues with existing infrastructure, software and hardware. I believe that this will round out the picture Stephen
_____ From: Mugarura Cavin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:26 PM To: lug Subject: [LUG] Re: FOSS Migration Brian, your efforts are worth while and will help spread the FOSS gospel, a few pointers to make your article more resourceful a) Describe the advantages of using FOSS b) Highlight how FOSS is no longer (or has tried) to be more intuitive, with introduction of windows like GUIs c) Success stories in FOSS (large scale), including governments in the EU, Brazil, China, India d) How certain FOSS applications are more popular than proprietary alternatives (Apache, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, etc) etc am sure someone could have suggested some of these things, but i read LUG mails from linux.or.ug (archives), which leaves me pretty behind current threads. The bad practices of people pasting all previous threads (including some of last year) to their messages, makes the LUG digest, impossible (read annoying) to read. regards Cavin -- always wake up like a bird having no worry about what you are going to eat today and how! because HE who created us has written our name on every grain which is for us only and no one can take it and it will always come to you...
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