Hi Mlugers and friends We started a project around 1 June with a government ministry to provide Linux development for several deliverables. Originally we thought the contract would be signed by 1 July, and thus we started to look for talented people such as individuals who expertise is well known to all our fellow MLUGers. Then, as you would view it on a popular British TV show, the sub-minister came along and changed the underlying Linux distribution on us, and that caused a rewrite of the deliverables and the contracts. We lost the month of July due to delays and rework. Now we are faced with other delays as the selected distribution has non-free codecs. We are waiting for legal clarification as we cannot legally distribute patented software that is not our own. What in normal businesses takes 3-4 weeks to hammer out a contract, is taking 3-4 months or longer, and this delay is frustrating to us and I am sure, to those involved and waiting for us to respond with good news. Please accept our apologies for the delays. We are not certain at all when or if the project will go forward. If not going forward, we lost 3 man-months of work. On the positive side, we also learned a lot from the experience. Your talent is not the issue, the bottleneck is the resolving of the legal aspects of distributing Linux code with non-free codecs. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] www.itbms.biz
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