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Birmingham Drops Open Source Initiative
eldavojohn writes "Birmingham, England put a stop to a half million pound project to put Linux and open source applications on library access PCs across the city. From the article, 'The council planned to roll out Linux software and applications on 1,500 desktops in libraries across the city, but in the end went no further than a 200-desktop project. Several industry watchers have voiced their concerns about the project, particularly around the number of PCs rolled out. Birmingham's expenditure averaged over 2,500 pounds per PC.' Why did they stop after 200 PCs? Because they claimed with Windows, the project would have been 100,000 pounds cheaper. One may wonder if they paid for initial training of their workforce making the first 200 more expensive than the rest but the article does not say whether or not this occurred."
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...the Birmingham city council is using gas lighting because of the cost of teaching their employees how to flip a switch to turn on electrical lights.
Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England what's the difference they can compare fruit and vegetables as equals, and use numbers equally well. I mean, y'all ain't got no cents, if'n ya don't know Equal is as Equal does.
Who the hell is Equal?
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?