On Friday 17 May 2002 07:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Lyvim, what makes you think the American government is so special ?
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich
> > Denmark
>
> There's no intimation here that this is an isolated case, Kaj. I just
> don't have any comprehensive data on other government's right or wrong
> doings.
>
> LX
Lyvim, I can assure you that the danish government is no better, if that can
comfort you. It is "owned" by Micro$oft. However, let's not get too
depressed. By and by things seems to develop :
In France there's a strong movement towards open-source, i.e. the french
government has proposed just that to the European Union. We'll see....
In Germany, the parliament ("Bundestag") recently moved from Bonn to Berlin.
The new building (in fact : the old one) needed an IT-system, so the
parliament initiated a feasability-study : Micro$oft / Open Source. We'll
see...
In Norway (who somehow always seems a little smarter than Denmark) Linux has
a good stronghold : think of Qt (TrollTech) and Opera. Both are commercial
companies that Micro$oft hasn't been able to crush. Yet ...?
And don't forget : corporations mightier than any nation-state use Linux
(Shell, BP, General Motors, Toyota etc.. etc...).
Cheers !
Kaj Haulrich
Denmark
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