[SC.LUG] 'Selling' Linux the Munich way:

[Richard Smedley]

Jason Lucas wrote:

>So that's how they did it.
>
>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39146113,00.htm
>  
>

``A local council in Germany may have found the secret ...
 -- stuffed penguins and powerful women.''

Works for me every time ;-)

``Speaking at the Open Source for Local Government conference 
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39146090,00.htm> 
in London, Bräuner explained that some users were afraid that the 
deployment of Linux was part of a secret plan to read everyone's email, 
record all their keystrokes and monitor their surfing habits.''

Well, if they're anything like British government employees, they've
probably got enough to hide ;-/


``Other users were upset that they could no longer run the front cover 
CD-ROMs from their favourite computer magazines at work, or keep their 
old screensavers. These feelings were assuaged, Bräuner says, once it 
became clear that games did run on Linux and that people could still use 
their work PC for private use.''


Ah what a dedicated workforce =^)    Ignoring my
prejudices against local government employees,
it's good to see a positive article about Free Software
on ZDnet :-)
Now if only the BBC would get with the program -
did anyone hear the nonsense trotted out about MS's
various problems on the today program this morning?

 - Richard