[Scottish] The Future of the LUG

[ptb]

Hallo all : -

Well we have MEPs also, is there no country in Europe (failing
that look in the UN for a linux-using state) using linux for
financial reasons and having the figures to back up their
decision?  Your MEP has the resources to find out for you.

The big Unix users for servers &c. (who are they? some
corporate ones will be bigger than many states) could be the
ones most likely to want to use Linux?  And what about local
governmentin UK and especially Scotland?  Isn't there a
foothold for linux anywhere?

Pat

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:11:04 -0000
Colin.Speirs at scotland.gsi.gov.uk wrote:

> > > Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk 
> > like the 
> > > Scottish
> > > Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to 
> > shift off MS; not to 
> > > mention encouraging similar moves in the public sector at 
> > large.  Pat talks 
> > > about this (with text of parliamentary questions, etc.) on 
> > his website 
> > > (www.patrickharviemsp.com).  
> > 
> > It's not so much getting politicians away from using 
> > Microsoft's products (although it could save a substantial 
> > amount) as getting them away from closed, secret, non-free 
> > document formats.  I can foresee problems ahead when all 
> > those documents written in Word 95 suddenly aren't readable 
> > when Office 2005 comes out and support for older formats is 
> > dropped (not that Microsoft would do such a thing, would they?)
> 
> As an IT person working in IT for the Scottish Executive I'm saying nothing.
> However I think your chances of getting anything done in the short term
> considering there has just been a massive Microsoft based OS roll-out are
> minimal to say the least.
> 
> cds
> 
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