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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.
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Man i'm really disappointed in the muslims. I mean they let new years go by and they didn't pull off one mass murdering. I mean if the muslims don't mass murder innocent people who will? the nazis? please they have done a decent mass murdering of innocents for 50 years. The kkk? they never where much for mass murderings i mean the most jews they killed at one time was what? like 5? on a good day a devoted muslim can usually do 10 times that. Really the only great mass murders left are the muslims and they really let me down this holiday. I mean i was thinking of converting, under christianity you gotta do all these good deeds and crap to get into heaven, but with islam, all you gotta do is blow up a bus of jewish school children and you got a spot in eternal paradise. But now i donno, if they can't even pull off a decent new years mass murdering i'm a little disappointed. you muslims need to work harder, i mean sure bombing 150 jews at once is nice, and taking out 5000 american slime at once, well that rocks, but you muslims really gotta improve your mass murder skills if your gonna pass the nazis for total number of dead jews. Can't blame ya for trying, happy murderings to you, muslims freinds.
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A company wants a program that draws a triangle. Microsoft(tm) Triangle(tm) draws a triangle. You can specify what color you want it to be.
An open source program draws a triangle. In addition to allowing you to choose the color, you can specify whether or not it's a right triangle, and if not, the various degrees.
Company purchaser looks at options and says "Well, the open source one is way better, but who knows if they'll be around in a year or two. Hell, let's go with the company we know will be there."
The root of all evil is accountability. With the Microsoft(tm) product, there will be a corporate entity to blame for any problems. With the open-source solutions, there's no guarantee that the producer will exist in the future.
So they'll always choose the Microsoft(tm) option. That's just the way it is in the real business world. Even if there's no possibility of recovering losses from the vendor, at least there will always (?) be that vendor to blame/approach. And in the off (heh) chance that there are others with the same problems, the likelihood of finding a solution will be greater.
Look at the computer predecessor, the typewriter. Sure, there have always been cheaper, and probably better-feature-laden typewriters, but the IBM sold so well because the suits always knew there would always be a big corporation behind them.
Point being... there's no way open-source will work until there's an established set of software requirement standards. We should require that software meet standards prior to being allowed in the marketplace. Unfortunately, there is no such requirement. Hence, we have what we have.
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Happy New Year, BoAATM! I'll think of you when I go to get cash on Friday.
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you're all stupid none of you are as smart as you think you are.
The trolls are probably smarter than you.
The trolls are smarter than you.
How can i tell?
They don't take a fucking stupid weblog loaded with idiotic pseudo academic banter about an industry that only 5% of all the poster even has worked in a day never mind a year or more.
You don't need a CS degree becuase your a big smart nerd. ya buddy, you're a regular descartes. haha, fucking morons.
I don't need math, what does math have to do with computer science? computer science is about c0dering and linux rulz0ring right?
capitilism sucks that's why i brag about my crappy 50k a year pathetic lan admin job like it's golden.
i'm a stupid 15 year old who is impressed by pathetic lan admins and i beleive everything on slashdot that gets modded up cuase i'm a fucking nerdy the fucking lame nerd.
fuck you all.
peas out to the trolls, you know what the deelio is...
haha i said deelio...
ok fuck this...
oh ya i missspelled some stuff, cuase i'm stupid, quick point it out and be a winner!
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i tasted the goo once, it tasted like salty boogers.