Yeah, thats true, I think that our gov should carry on using OpenSource despite what people say, I think that the risks of using OSS is minimal, besides just because you run GNU/Linux doesn't mean you have to create GPL software to run off it, you can develop proprietry stuff for Linux as far as I know, the only restrictive bit is that you cannot include GPL libraries with it. So in that sense you can write your own license and run it on Linux, I think this is more MS sponsored FUD, because the UK is probably MS's favourite customer... (remember Bill G buying newspapers in London??)
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true dat!
Thank god, finally a tech that won't leave me in a plane for 12 hours while travelling overseas without a cigarette! Yippy!
I would love to see the look on Darls face when he gets his bandwidth usage bill from his service providers!!
Well it's the first of FEB here in the UK, tried to access the $CO site and it seems that its completely broken!
You see this is what we call "N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G"
Humour on all levels and a common enemy!
Yeah, thats true, I think that our gov should carry on using OpenSource despite what people say, I think that the risks of using OSS is minimal, besides just because you run GNU/Linux doesn't mean you have to create GPL software to run off it, you can develop proprietry stuff for Linux as far as I know, the only restrictive bit is that you cannot include GPL libraries with it. So in that sense you can write your own license and run it on Linux, I think this is more MS sponsored FUD, because the UK is probably MS's favourite customer... (remember Bill G buying newspapers in London??)