On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:51:05AM -0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
Maybe SUSE should be doing something similar in NHS/Microsoft case...
<big snip> Well done on RedHat for exposing the rank hypocrisy of the proposed settlement & trying to get MS to cough up some /real/ money. This `extend the monopoly' settlement ranks alongside their settlement with the DOJ ie. `Behave yourselves for 5 years or...' <sound of sinister music> `...we'll ask you kindly to behave yourselves for another 2 years!' All the industry players should get together and donate what they can in a fanfare of publicity. ie. The hardware firms (Apple, Sun, IBM) out of date stock, software firms (Oracle, RH/Suse, etc) software, the open source community time and skills, and then tell MS to meet the retail value of it with hardware (without their crappy & worthless software on it). That way MS get leveraged out of schools and the rest get leveraged in, with schools being the big winners. Do the same with the NHS and that way the monopoly will quickly start to get eroded. It will be a fairly costly play for the firms but until they do something along those lines otherwise they will always be `also rans'. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/