On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:47, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Lyvim, I can assure you that the danish government is no better, if that can > comfort you. It is "owned" by Micro$oft. However, let's not get too > depressed. By and by things seems to develop : > > In France there's a strong movement towards open-source, i.e. the french > government has proposed just that to the European Union. We'll see.... > > In Germany, the parliament ("Bundestag") recently moved from Bonn to Berlin. > The new building (in fact : the old one) needed an IT-system, so the > parliament initiated a feasability-study : Micro$oft / Open Source. We'll > see... > > In Norway (who somehow always seems a little smarter than Denmark) Linux has > a good stronghold : think of Qt (TrollTech) and Opera. Both are commercial > companies that Micro$oft hasn't been able to crush. Yet ...? > > And don't forget : corporations mightier than any nation-state use Linux > (Shell, BP, General Motors, Toyota etc.. etc...). > > Cheers ! > > Kaj Haulrich > Denmark Very heartening, Kaj; your presence is needed here. :) Thanks for the other perspective; I have got so many channels of information coming in here regarding the IT-politico scene that I get overburdened with it sometimes; I'll try to lessen that tendency.
One thing that helped in that regard today was going to see Star Wars Episode 2 with my brother. Man, what a blast! I have to say...better than Spidey. The icing on the cake was the Matrix Reloaded preview. L8R! :) LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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