Matthew Revell wrote: > Apologies for my absence recently. Day job has been mad busy. I'm > getting ready to leave my current job, so should be back here > regularly soon. > > Tesco - major UK/European supermarket - is rebadging software from > Formjet (http://www.formjet.co.uk/500-products.htm). > > BBC has a story here: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5396488.stm > > Quite apart from questions of whether people will buy this, rather > than carry on pirating MS Office, perhaps there's an opportunity for > Ubuntu and OpenOffice with other supermarkets. >
It also suggests that since the tesco software will be for windows, it means that such decisions come from a culture which does not recognise that alternatives to windows exist, or are not taken seriously. Interesting that even the obvious open source possibilities such as Open Office are not mentioned. Tesco could easily rebrand this as open source if they wished, or just host some *freedom toasters* occasionally - get a lot of local publicity too with something like that. Does anyone have contact with tescos? -- alan c -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
