On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:44, eurk-dsl wrote: > Does anyone have any figures on how much M$ are helping the deficit each > year in Australia?
My personal guess is of the order of $2.5 billion per year. > Imagine the impact on the balance of trade and therefore the wealth of > the nation if M$ was taken out of the equation. If just the government used free software / open source the total savings we be in the order of $15 billion per year. Or to use other measures a brand new major teaching hospital in each capital city (6 x $1.5 billion) + $1 billion for higher education + $1 billion odd for land degradation / salinity + 1 billion for child care + a few billion for tax cuts / higher pensions. EVERY YEAR !!!!! > Every time you install SAMBA/Linux for example at a site, you've > contributed to Australia's bottom line. Yes and if you use a "triple bottom line" if get even better!!! 1. Profits - Yes, it is much cheaper 2. Environmental - Yes, it improves the solutions for other people including poor people 3. People - Yes - Better educated as they can see the products (source) -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst Australia Phone: +(61-2) 9360 5555 Fax +(61-2) 9361 0094 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
