This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the 
> penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is 
> "clearly an industry trend".

Because it's trendy?  Yeesh!  I couldn't think of a WORSE reason to make 
a specific technology decision.  That's worse than "nobody ever got 
sacked for choosing... (IBM/MS/Java)".

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
www.rumble.net


 "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining
  armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos
  neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling
  second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."
- Douglas Adams on Windows '95.
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