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UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux
An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to GNU/Linux.
ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local government technology consultants Nineveh."
Why. It just isn't (and will never be) ready for the desktop.
Nothing beats the flexibility, scalability and useability of Microsoft Windows® XP.
Open sores GNU Fucking Hippies will never be able to compete with those with paid jobs. Microsoft needs all the support they can get considering they power much of the US economy.
Jeez whoah hey! THAT'S DISGUSTING!!! Are you aware that the site you hyper-linked to had an embedded graphic depiction in graphic form of a guy holding his cornhole open?
This can only be a good thing for suppliers of certain local government based software (SX3, Ocella) - many of their products used to run on UNIX alone, and even now some of them run emulated under W2K.
The council I work for runs iWorld, an SX3 product - unfortunately our UNIX admin is a bit of a fool and didn't notice when the project suggested running the system emulated. If he'd have been paying attention, we might have got some Linux boxen in!
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I think they are going to get a firsthand look into the statement "Linux isnt free".
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I am tired of the arrogance of the americans, they want to spread their culture, there army, their business without doing care of us.
Americans, why do you have yet basis on democratic countries like Japan and Germany ? You used Atomic bomb on the country of the rising sun, you bombarded all the cities of Germany killing thousands of children, I am really pissed of your comportments.
You initiated an embargo on South Africa for Apartheid when 20 years ago the Black were not allowed to vote in your own country, you want to give lessons on the jews deportations with your hollywood movies, when you killed almost all the native americans !
We don't need your help, we don't need you anymore : You are againt the russian intervention in Chechnya when you occupy Afghanistan and Irak !
Please amercans, leave Germany and Japan, go away from Middle East and Afghanistan, let the South American free and please don't apply embargo on French products : The world is free, we don't need to have your army on our soil !
If you don't do that, I am afraid we will be forced to declare war or send "Blue-helmets" in USA...
Thats the second shameless plug I've seen for your company. Our company does it much here. ;o)
...can anyone tell me when we ever saw a large-scale switch from Linux to Windows NT?
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OK,
Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham, one year from now
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So, let me sum up. A small county in a socialist European country, have contemplated to at some time in the future maybe change to Linux. Wow.
Why don't you get back to us when a real company in a real (non socialist) country makes a big switch?
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