Open source is increasingly being used both as a cost-cutting measure and as a search for better bang for the computing buck. RedHat is positioning itself as a blue chip computing services provider, much like IBM with their hugely expensive 'smart' campaign.
Of course, most older business models that are still around will use it as a cost cutting measure. As the world economy treads water and struggles to find a foothold, expectations of material "well being" are already changing rapidly. We've recently seen bandwidth restrictions (see an MLUGer's message from today about Rogers and android), attacks on Google's attempt to publish books and newspaper articles electronically for free, and other hindrances to the free flow of information. HTH Sustain On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:00:00 -0500, "patricia campbell" <[email protected]> said: > Interesting how would one describe this website ?? > Where does it fit with > www.opensource.org > www.fsf.org > ... > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bonjour/Hello! > > > > J'aimerais vous presenter le nouveau site web de RedHat en anglais - > > > > http://opensource.com/ > > > > I'd like to present a new web site by RedHat in English - > > > > http://opensource.com/ > > > > Tous ce que vous voudriez savoir sur opensource mais n'avais pas assez > > du temps a decouvrir - > > > > all you wanted to know about opensource but didn't have the time to find > > out! > > > > Sustain -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
