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Governments & Open Source

Posted by Hemos on from the oh-noes-the-confusion dept.

sydney-computer-support writes "The Greens in New Zealand who advocate the use of OSS are upset about a Novell contract because it doesn't support open source. The article mentions the greens spokeperson saying the contract "cleared the path for government agencies to adopt and expand their use of non-proprietary software" -- failing to note that Novell is a company offering proprietary versions of OSS."

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  1. Re:New title by burnin1965 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Agreed. This guy is just pissed off that his favorite convicted monopolist is not going to get a free ride from his government.

    The funny thing is he can only back up his view of how things out to be by attacking the people instead of the issue and using paid for reports and studies as counter points. But this seems to be his MO:

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 13097&cid=0&cname=Results
    google & sun CEOs belittled

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12239&cid=0&cname=Results
    patching windows cost less than patching open source, MS funded report

    http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id= 12440&cid=0&cname=Results
    linux growth slows, business model weakens

    Perhaps he has just had too much koolaid.