[Lancaster] Front page Citizen Article

[Ken Hough]

max wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I've been feeding John Whitelegg information, case studies and F/OSS arguments 
> for the past couple of months. The article is typically confusing and of poor 
> journalistic standard, so it's not surprising that they don't report that 
> John's pushing for the council to use Star Office, and look at F/OSS 
> potential generally.
> 
> I've offered John a general introductory chat about Free Software use and the 
> ideas behind it, and he seems keen to take this further.
>

Has he had the opportunity to actually see/use a modern/high spec. 
system running said software? It not, maybe we should set up demo. I 
could bring along an Athlon box running SuSE v9.1 and Star Office v5.2 
which I still use for a couple of old spreadsheets containing charts. I 
could also bring a mid spec laptop running SuSE.

I find Star Office (and OOo) sluggish on lower spec machines.


Ken Hough


> Max
> 
> On Friday 10 Dec 2004 14:05, Martyn Welch wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>May I suggest all those with a penchant for advocacy avail themselves of a
>>copy of this weeks Citizen. One of the front page articles "Close the Gates
>>call" reports on a suggestion by Lancaster's Green Party to remove
>>Microsoft software from council computers and replace it with "open source"
>>software.
>>
>>The article mentions Sun Microsystems and thus my guess is that they are
>>talking about the "Java Desktop System" rather than Solaris (which Sun are
>>talking about opening) which is in fact Linux.
>>
>>I guess it would be a good idea for us to spend some time soon getting the
>>next generation of the folly's systems up and running and arrange a meeting
>>with this bright fellow (whom goes by the name of Councillor John
>>Whitelegg), or at least draw attention to it's existance?
>>
>>Martyn
> 
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