On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:28 -0400, Hipolito A. Gonzalez M. wrote:
Ok, the problem is that in Venezuela the goverment said: All public institution must use LINUX. Is not my problem is you have development in closed plataform, you will use linux. Some institutions are migrating, the IVIC (cientific Venezuelan Institute) has a Sun Enterprise 420R. UltraSparc II. They need to move to linux or put in the trash the computer.
Huh? SPARC/Solaris is an _open_ platform. Sun has contributed _heavily_ to IETF standards that Linux now uses, and that includes _major_ contributions to the Linux kernel (even more than IBM -- don't get me started). I am very much strongly _for_ mandating "open standards." But I am very much strongly _against_ mandating "open source." Choice is the key difference. "Open source" is _not_always_ the best "open standard." In fact, some "open source" can be downright eccentric. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------- Illegal Immigration = "Representation Without Taxation" -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com