[Gllug] Open Source lobbying meeting - UKUUG London Thurs 19th

[Richard Turner]

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John Hearns wrote:
> Richard Turner wrote:
> 
>>
>> FOSS becoming mainstream isn't something that will suddenly happen -
>> there won't be some Earth-shaking event that catapults FOSS into the
>> "mainstream"; however, if more and more non-technie folk use Linux,
>> because it's free and safer than Windows on a PC with broadband,
>> eventually people will start to want to use the same software at work as
>> at home. Many IT managers, at least in smaller companies, might well
>> welcome that!
>>
> In last years' Top 500, 374 of the systems were running Linux.
> FOSS, or more specifically the Linux OS, is already mainstream.
> I think I have argued this one already on GLLUG.
> Linux is used everywhere from City banks (Morgan Stanley are well known
> as big Linux users), the LCH computing infrastructure, the Space Shuttle
> to the embedded PVR in your living room.

Sorry - I clearly wasn't being explicit enough - Linux and FOSS are not
mainstream in the context we were discussing. Most people don't care
what OSs the space shuttles, PVRs, mobile phones, etc. use but they do
care what's running on their PCs because that's where the steeper
learning curve is, and the greater variety of software.

R.

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"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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