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Just got my card with a nice jumping guy on it.<br>
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Nice link thanks:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/ms_mugs_the_facts/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/ms_mugs_the_facts/</a><br>
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Just read this bit from MS:<br>
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we can postulate a tour specifically designed to bolster support for
Microsoft platforms and to foment doubt about Open Source among
Microsoft's existing customer base. This is quite different from
mounting an overtly evangelistic effort aimed at the generality of
opinion, so although you might mistake it for an attacking campaign
from its pre-publicity (such as it is), it's really far more likely to
have been a defensive ploy by a worried company.<br>
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We really need to go to this and see what their putting out.<br>
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Anyone else going?<br>
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Cheers<br>
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:swlug@azem.org">swlug@azem.org</a>
Reply-To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:swlug@azem.org">swlug@azem.org</a>
Organization: outanet
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:discuss@swlug.org.uk"><discuss@swlug.org.uk></a>
Subject: Re: [SWLUG] Microsoft Vs. Linux Celtic Manor July 7th - anybody going?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:09:44 +0000
<<<< taken from the below link
Countering the free software message was the recurrent point that it's th=
e=20
integration of your 'software stack' that counts in the enterprise; does =
your=20
j2ee or .net development framework integrate top to bottom for your web=20
services platform and your user desktop and can you manage a deployment o=
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thousands of dekstops with a couple of mouse clicks from your central con=
trol=20
bunker? This is probably true if you are Ford or Boeing but whether it pl=
ays=20
well to the home user, small school or call centre is something else.=20
Retreating up the value chain may look appealing as competition enters at=
the=20
bottom, but if in a few years time all the graduates coming into the job=20
market have Star Office and Ximian on their laptop it may be a different=20
matter. And nobody talked about free as in 'libre', only gratis - a side =
to=20
the debate that's old hat in Open Source circles.
Question time to the panel allowed various digs to be slipped in around=20
security, patching and software IPR as well as 'why don't you unbundle=20
Internet Explorer?' (courtesy E. Bleasdale, proprietor). Again Microsoft=20
'fessed up to security vulnerabilities in the past and said fixing it was=
=20
their number one priority.
Laugh of the day went to Philip Hands who stood up from the floor and sai=
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that Debian had a better patch distribution system than Microsoft 'would =
ever=20
have'. The compere jibed back 'Oh, so you are are a futurologist as well?=
' To=20
which Philip replied 'Yes, I switched to Linux ten years ago'. Cue hilari=
ty=20
from the floor and time to troop out to a cracking free lunch.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/ms_mugs_the_facts/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/ms_mugs_the_facts/</a>
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