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Sun Gets Open Source Into NSW Government

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the accept-one-of-our-free-tanks dept.

lplatypus writes "ZDNet Australia reports that Sun Microsystems has "has cleared a place for its Java Enterprise System on the NSW government's software shelf, continuing its campaign to weaken Microsoft's monopoly over the desktop." The Age clarifies that Sun's offering includes open source components such as Linux, Gnome, Mozilla and Evolution. Another article is at Australian IT, or see Sun's press release."

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  1. Re:Madhatter for free? by Kenja · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The purpose of moderation is to improve the s/n ratio.

    Remember kids, noise is anything you don't want to hear or don't agree with while signal is the sound comming out of your backside.

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  2. Re:Madhatter for free? by Jahf · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Erm, it's offtopic, but ...



    It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.

    If it was more productive to voice than to moderate, there would be no need for moderation!


    1: You have to have people voicing opinions before you can moderate them. Therefore hierarchically voicing -is- the more important aspect as moderating would exist without it.

    2: I didn't say it is not useful to moderate, only that it is -more- important to provide input (which assumes you have some form of input).

    3: Part of my purpose with the signature is to get people to converse since I don't need to be mod'ed -up- as my karma hit it's limit a long time ago and if they are going to mod me -down- I'd rather know why (and unless I go on a bunch of sequential tirades a few down mods isn't going to affect my karma status anyway) ... it is more constructive to know why someone disagrees with you rather than to only see a general categorization of said disagreement.

    4: Since most people at any given time don't have mod points and no one except perhaps the administrators have mod points all the time, it would appear that at least someone else agrees with me, otherwise we would all have mod points all the time.

    5: It's a freaking signature ... but at least you voiced about it instead of moderating ;)

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  3. Re:Explain This by CoolMoDee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Best sig ever!

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  4. Re:Flame bait for sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    To sum up: YOUR FULL OF SHIT
    It's 'you're.' That's 'you're.' As in 'you are.' 'You are.' That is, if I wanted to say 'You are a fucking moron,' I might shorten that to: 'You're a fucking moron.' You fucking moron.
  5. Re:java desktop = potential problem by chez69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sun should help the guy working on the java GNOME bindings. Then their gnome desktop could be a true 'java' desktop.

    before you anti-java wankers reply, the java gnome bindings are the same idea as SWT, they map directly to the C API that gnome has.

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