New Zealand Government Open Source with Novell

quikflik writes "New Zealand Computerworld magazine reports an 'All-of-government' open source deal with Novell. The deal allows government agencies access to Novell Open Source software and support - and probably some other Novell products too considering the Inland Revenue Department have been using them for a while. Still .. is an incumbant vendor always the best? If you were a government, which linux distribution would you choose?"

Comments

kiwi

[Anonymous Coward]

foish and chups eh gill?

Re:kiwi

[Anonymous Coward]

Translation :
[australian that think it's the kiwis with the funny accent]
foish and chups eh gill
[kiwi]
you mean fish and chips ay girl?
or as you would say it, feeesh and cheeps aaaay geerl

while we're on subject of australia
what happened with the ashes
or the tri nations
and oooooo, the netball
or, getting pwned by being america's little baby boy country :P

Re:Novell SUE Linux 10.0

[maxwell demon]

SUE Linux? Is that a distribution specifically tailored for lawyers?

I know the reason

[dzafez]

Since there are no licenses, OpenSource is much sheeper.

Re:a home made one...

[rustbear]

Yep, i totally agree. There's nothing like crucial government tax software written by students...

Ooh, I know this game

[a.different.perspect]

New Zealand refused to have the wool pulled over their eyes by Microsoft's sheared source initiative. And it wasn't a matter of knit-picking: closed source is baadly restrictive and, between ewe and me, good for mutton in the quality department. Butt enough rambling.

Distro choice

[bensch128]

I'd roll my own and then convince the government to pay me a gigantic support contract.

Then when they have problems with openoffice or mozilla, i'd tell them to go complain to the project developers.

Ben

GNU

[SSJ_Ramon]

Does this mean that it's GNU/Zealand now?

[ducks]