----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin McKinnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [scottish] Mandrake
> [mandrake ipo in france snippage] > > AIR, France has a law requiring public sector bodies to use open-source > systems unless it can be shown that there is no open-source product or that > an open source product would have a greater TCO than its commercial > counterpart.....which seems remarkably sensible to me. Of course that may > be nothing at all to do with why... didn't that law come to pass _after_ Mandrake IPO'd?! seems I was wrong at any rate - some US trading brokers let you trade on Mandrake shares OTC (over the counter) - basically share trading off the regular US exchanges (since Mandrake IPO'd on the Marche Libre). Also sites such as Keytrade let you trade directly on the Euronext market - http://www.keytrade.com/member/quote/quote.asp?Market=F&Symbol=004477 -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ for Sega." -- Brodie, 'Mallrats' =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ @ well.com :: William Anderson U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! http://neuro.wasters.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
