[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

> salsaman at xs4all.nl schrieb:
>
>> And yet, they feel themselves sufficiently qualified to try to push
>> through software patents via a backdoor. Strange is it not ?
>
> Oh yeah, it is. But I guess these are two different kinds of people:
>
> The software patent folks mainly seem to be patent lawyers who want to
> have "old-world" law applied to new technologies, no matter how
> ridiculous this might turn out to be in the end.
>
> Public IT guys, however, are _different_. Had to deal with
> administrators of small and medium cities around here, and what I learnt
> this way was pretty, well, "amazing":
>
> - Most of these folks obviously got in touch with computing during the
> DOS age and then and now learnt to hate Microsoft (because of their
> broken software) yet to embrace it (because there obviously was no other
> option).
>
> - More than once I heard things like "Microsoft invented the internet to
> sell more copies of Windows 98 that comes with the Internet browser and
> the Mail application". In this world of thoughts, the idea of relying
> upon MS Exchange as the server thought of as being the "original e-mail
> server implementation" seems just logical (no matter how strange this
> seems to anyone else).
>
> - Overally, quite a bunch of these people still see Microsoft as the
> sole bringer of innovation, thus everyone else either is a copycat or
> even stealing MS intellectual property. This is really bad.
>
> Oh well, I'll better stop ranting now as this is in no way related to
> the thread at all. Anyhow, I am afraid that this is the kind of people
> we have to deal wit in public institutions. The very moment an
> administrator of a really small city hall ( < 10 workstations, same
> amount of users, two network printers and a dialup DSL internet
> connection) asks you (as the "solution provider") to set up a Windows
> 2003 AD server and an MS Exchange environment to finally be able to
> "manage his network", you just stop asking any questions. :(
>
> Cheers,
> Kris
>


Funny how other countries seem to "get it" though, and the UK .gov doesn't,

e.g Germany, France, Netherlands all rolling out Linux/Free Software.

Gabriel.


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