[Wolves] West Midlands Open Source support

Peter Cannon peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Mar 16 11:37:16 GMT 2004


Hi David

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 10:22, David Goodwin wrote:
> Peter Cannon wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > Controversial Pete Says:
> > 
> > I thought University's were for teaching not competitive business
> > ventures?
> > 
> > Better to give 4 million to the small business enterprise via the
> > Chamber of commerce, that way there will be more job opportunities in
> > the market place rather than an organisation with an unfair financial
> > advantage of Government backing.
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm inclined to agree, however the government seems to think it can spin 
> off businesses from universities (and therefore hopefully help the 
> University fund itself). There is quite a lot of money floating around 
> if you have a year or so to fill in the required paper work (EU grants, 
> local/regional development funds etc)
You are right, you should see the forms for Microsoft based training
that need to be filled out if you want to use EU funding.
> 
> David.
> 
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Regards

Peter Cannon

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