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UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source
Imran Ghory writes: "The UK government has put out a consultation paper on the use of open source software in government,background research into OSS commisioned by the government is also available, including a comparision of OSS office suites." Check out the formats in which the document is available.
Happy New Year
The documents are available in Word and .PDF format. These are pretty industry standard at this point, and .pdf can be read a multitude of ways. What's the problem?
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
Her Majesty's Open Source = HMOS = Homos = Hemos!
Happy 2002, niggas!
"What's the problem?"
Nobody said there was a problem, who are you responding to ?
Or are you attemping to forsee and headoff a problem before its posbily mentioned ?
or maybe your just making noise (like me)
damn man, you got bitchslapped.
Although the sun dawns on another new year, it is setting for *BSD, the dying operating system. Yes, yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
Does the UK government still wear those stupid powdered wigs?
I ask you this: If you can't count on muslims to slaughter innocent jews by the hundreds who can you count on? tell me who? the nazis? the kkk? no the mass murder of jews and americans is up to our muslim friends now...i hope we can count on you to exterminate these pests.
Ah Timothy. dont make comments like th@ when you are obviously just trolling for blind M$ hating comments. Dont get me wrong - i'm no fan of M$ but .doc is just a standard. Comments accompanying stories should probably be slightly more impartial & subjective.
But on a more cheerful note, this is a gr8 move by the UK government and i hope that it will prove to be an example that other governments will follow, but i wont keep my fingers crossed here in Australia where the current government seems to have its head in the sand.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
i'm an open source zealot so naturally i am one stupid irrational motherfucker so get away from me you capitalist nazi email snooper informant mind slave. I think hypocrits are fucking a bunch of lame assholes, well except for me i can be a hypocrit and its ok. open source rocks your world. you must use linux on the desktop now becuase it is the best, except that it's not ready yet. but you still have to use it becuase it's the best, well not yet but it might be better than windows someday so you have to start using it now otherwise you are an american and americans are bad bad bad people and i hate them all, oh did i mention i'm on open source zealot nice to meet you, wanna hang out and complain on cheesy tabloid quality weblogs with me? i have no friends, but thats just becuase your all stupid and use windows cuase your dumb and i'm so smart, thats why i use linux on the desktop becuase its better, its better becuase its hard to use and your stupid anmd i'm smart and your a stupid american and americans suck becuase they do cuase i'm not one and you are fuck you.
Sir, from your troll-like "Capitalism is the foundation on which the American economy is built" to your willingness to take my argument in whatever direction you see fit (apparently I want ASCII documents - apparently) it seems clear that you may face some other problems in life.
Do you find yourself debating with the checkout boy on whether plastic or paper is the more long-term survival of the american people?
Does your boss not understand the global implications of "rolling out" 140W bulbs for every office?
Do you yell at the traffic-light car washers and insist that until they wear suits instead of shabby scraps of cloth you won't have them clean you car?
Or do you spend time on slashdot abusively responding to posts that merely state facts and purposefully avoid taking a stance so as not to spin wackjobs into a hysterical cut and pasting frenzy from a cornflakes box?
(ps. moderators. crack. etc.)
After discovering - with disappointment - that
South Australia's gov't has signed an (apparently
LONG-TERM) "whole of enterprise" agreement to
use -only- Microsoft software... (e.g. ALL new
servers -must- use MS server software, etc.),
I am happy to note that UK has begun to show
some serious interest in OSS.
Now, Australia's shiny-bums (i.e. civil servants)
can seriously consider OSS...
Still a colony... one way or another...
Very interesting.
Last post of 2001 :)
Technokev
turn off referring logging
PDF is SATAN incarnate man! PDF wants to EAT YOUR BRAINS! PDF is an attempt by BEALZIBUB himself torture your SOUL for all ETERNITY! PDF is pure EVIL !
Their site evidently uses much legacy ASP code (which, I must say, is extremely powerful and fast) which the British Government seems to utilize quite successfully. Why rewrite it in a slower language such as Perl, just to use an open source OS?
Huh? ASP code? What, PerlScript? ASP isn't a language, numbnuts, so you can't exactly compare it to Perl. And I'd hesitate to call Perl a slow language (esp. mod_) when compared to, say, *snicker* Visual Basic. Nice try though. Stop talking out of your ass, and maybe we'll let you come back.
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