a nice hotel seems far too corporate for anything relating to open source. Surely this goes against what the open source software community really stands for. For open source award to have any real merit it would have to be run by the community somehow, and voted for by people in the community who have their finger on the pulse of what's going on and who's doing great things.
Having said that, the attention it may bring could help to push open-source software (eg firefox).into the home of the average person. Although now I'm thinking about it, maybe that isn't beneficial to the community.
I don't like the way this article is loaded in such a way as to imply that working toward an open source future is a good thing (tm). Why should Europe be in such a rush to go open source? Maybe by waiting they can assess how other countries have faired with open source and from there make an informed decision about how to proceed.
One also has to remember that these developing countries who are moving forward this open source do not have the IT infrastructure already in place, so they have a clean slate to work with. With Europe however, it would mean a costly (in terms of both time and money) switchover.
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OOOH Yeah I'm the king!
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I find that's the best way to get what you want in life.
And what about the TCO?
This is A|_A|_A all the way down.
Except for me that is.
Isn't the internet flooded with millions of pointless worthless blogs already? The last thing we want is more.
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a nice hotel seems far too corporate for anything relating to open source. Surely this goes against what the open source software community really stands for.
For open source award to have any real merit it would have to be run by the community somehow, and voted for by people in the community who have their finger on the pulse of what's going on and who's doing great things.
Having said that, the attention it may bring could help to push open-source software (eg firefox).into the home of the average person. Although now I'm thinking about it, maybe that isn't beneficial to the community.
That's what it was like in the old days when HDs weren't standard - except you would be swapping floppies.
I don't like the way this article is loaded in such a way as to imply that working toward an open source future is a good thing (tm). Why should Europe be in such a rush to go open source? Maybe by waiting they can assess how other countries have faired with open source and from there make an informed decision about how to proceed. One also has to remember that these developing countries who are moving forward this open source do not have the IT infrastructure already in place, so they have a clean slate to work with. With Europe however, it would mean a costly (in terms of both time and money) switchover.