[Gllug] Linux Petition

[Robert]

On 02/04/12 23:20, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 21:23 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
>>> Please share if you find the cause worthy.
>> The cause may be worthy, but the likelihood of the Government migrating
>> from Windows to Linux is zero, at least in the foreseeable future.
>>
>> Better to ask that all new systems be Open Source.
> Speaking as a Government lackey, I can (happily) report that we are
> starting to use FOSS.  Uptake is slow, and there's a lot of (mostly
> unfounded) resistance, but it's beginning to happen.  
>
> Just earlier today, we selected a traffic monitoring system partly
> because the software that controls it is entirely open (the hardware
> even runs embedded Linux).  
>
> The fact that the only halfway credible competitor for this system uses
> WinCE (what an appropriate name!) and the control and configuration
> software is proprietary and expensively licenced per copy (and had
> amusingly blue-screened and hung several times during their attempted
> demonstration) made the FOSS system an easy "sell" to the bean-counters!
>
> We're starting to use Libre Office, and we're seeing quite a lot of
> Ubuntu about these days (though the secretariat seem to prefer "Mint").
>
> Hopefully, it'll just be a matter of time.  Central (and regional)
> government is beginning to realise that most software licences and bogus
> "support" are expensive scams.  Persistently broken software (like
> Windows "Office") is now recognised to be expensive both in money and
> time!
>
> C.
>
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This is nice to hear, small steps are great start as long as they are
deemed successful.
Didn't the LSE switch to SUSE recently?
If only my current work place would consider Linux, but instead we
thought we'd let Microsoft tell us they no longer support XP and server
2003, and force us to upgrade to server 2008 and win 7. Super!
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