On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:43:24 +0100, Keith Willshaw wrote:

"phil hunt" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:11:24 GMT, Tom Cooper wrote:


Then no-one with any sense will buy from them. Note that in
mass-market software, this is already happening: many countries[1]
are moving away from Microsoft Windows towards Linux because they
don't want the US govmt to spy on them, or to be dependent on forign
technology.


[1]: e.g. Germany, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Thailand, China, Japan,
South Korea.

Nonsense

I work for a software company that has versions of its product
available on various flavours of Unix including Linux as well
as Windows. We havent made a new Unix sale in 5 years,
the overwhelming demand is for NT/Win2k/XP versions
and that includes clients in Germany, China, Japan and
South Korea.

So the fact that people don't apparently want to use the Unix
version of *one particular software package*, is somehow meant to
indicate that the govmts of these countries haven't set up
initiatives to switch some or all of computers in govmt use to
Linux?

If that's the state of your logic, I hope they don't employ you as
a programmer! BTW, the last car I owned was made by an American
company; this proves that no companies outside the USA manufacture
motor vehicles.

For specialist applications some organisations withing those
countries may well choose Linux, we use it for our web
servers but I'll bet that 90%+ of the PC's on desks in
those nations are running Windows

Yes, you're probably right -- after all, if no-one was using
Windows, then there would be no desire to switch from Windows. The
question is, what will they be using in 5 or 10 years time?

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