On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:47, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> 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
Very heartening, Kaj; your presence is needed here. :) Thanks for the
other perspective; I have got so many channels of information coming in
here regarding the IT-politico scene that I get overburdened with it
sometimes; I'll try to lessen that tendency.
One thing that helped in that regard today was going to see Star Wars
Episode 2 with my brother. Man, what a blast! I have to say...better
than Spidey. The icing on the cake was the Matrix Reloaded preview.
L8R! :) LX
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