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- repomonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm sure if you try really hard you can be even more insulting.
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I am Australian, this is great news...! Actually even if I wasn't Australian it would be great news... But I am.. so it is....
Bah it's beer time.. - ScoTTeh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Did you resummarise the slashdot summary? because if you bothered to read the article correctly you would see its the New South Wales (State) Govt not the Federal.
- gedw99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Great news. The land down under is allot more advanced in the open source area than i realized.
Speaking as an Aussie its nice to see some kind of flat playing field being created for OS software to compete with commerical offerings.
Also its great to see government departments even having the ability to use open source software. Normally the compliance issues prevent them even looking at it.
Lets hope other government's and companies take their compliance model on to give other sectors the ability to cut through the compliance red tape to use OS software. - theHM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Maybe scotteh did, trejkaz. You can't see reports and by leaving a comment, maybe majormar (and others) will take note and leave more accurate descriptions in the future.
- erudite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5And a quick point:
Any moron who refers to an Australian as a convict is a scared ignorant little child. If you are British then we run your IT systems - look at the banks and look at the tech staff that run them. Funny thing when I was living there is that they would give me a job over an equally qualified pasty-faced mincing whiner any day - management prefers things to work.
What is more while you panty-wetting little English boys are giggling about the "convict" comment - we are a) sleeping with, and satisfying, your women, b) arguing at the pub over whether to hire/fire/demoralise you or c) deciding whether or not to let you drown like an ignorant sunburnt ***** in our surf... - avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Oh yes Prison Colony.. Notice how we arn't moving back..
"Dear Mum and Dad.. Life is great here, i am at a Prison Colony on the eastern Coast. It's sunny, the beaches are long and white. If I were you I would steal a loaf of bread and come out on the next boat.
Your's
Drew" - Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you'll find that wine is turning into the national drink of choice in Australia for some reason.
And Windows (not Microsoft, that would be the company that makes it) isn't the best OS for porn, it would most likely be the worst for it because a lot of porn sites are full of browser exploits, the majority targeting IE(not necessarily a fault of MS, just one of the downsides of having the largest marketshare etc, although I don't like the browser) . Any OS is good for porn, as long as it allows for some form of media player that plays *.avi, *.wmv, *.mov and *.mpg and has a internet browser that works well.
But this is getting off topic, I ACTUALLY wanted to just agree with scotteh, there is a huge difference between the NSW state government and the AU federal government (which is the one implied). - seanabernethie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2mmm im australian and im drunk (gmt 10+) so yea its gud 4 australia im off to read article now
- fredinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yer i agree, finally people using linux in oz.. now i just have to wait for the WA government to switch
- nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah man, I agree. I was just fishing, to see who would bite!
U came up with a few interesting points...
Siromet? ;)
-- oh a fellow oi oi oier here btw.. so dont worry. - samtc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Novell is using OSS to push a lot of thier proprietary products. Every distro (Suse Linux Entreprise Server, Novell Linux Destop / Suse Linux Entreprise Desktop, Open Entreprise Server, Suse Linux) cost a lot's of dollars and are mostly dependant to Novell proprierary products. In my opinion switching to Novell it's not switching for opensource. They have not demonstrated a real politic of open source yet.
- Opiate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice try zealot. Last time i checked Novell was a Company. It goes against the ideals of RMSism.
- zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes me proud to be an Aussie. I had lost hope due to rampant Microsoft love in Australia. Apparently a learning tool known as BASIC is still one of the predominant development tools in the IT community here which is quite sad.
- nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2You dont understand...
Australians drink beer. Microsoft is the best OS for porn, so everyone uses it. - ungamedplayer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Open Source is in many more places in .AU than just the government. Novell probably did little more than send some suits out with a budget to buy them lunch.
Wake me for the revolution - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Retard. I am in London right now and am stunned by the number of yobbos here. Luckily they don't keep sending them to Aus now. Clearly once they stopped sending them the local buildup must have been apparent.
- zagi1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1So it seems the Australians were influenced by RMS's speech when he visited a few years ago.
It's good news indeed, I have heard this story too many times of governments switching to FLOSS.
Many governments in Europe have migrated to GNU/Linux;
France's ministries of Defence, Culture and Economy. Germany's Federal Institute for Agriculture and Food, Administration of the German Parliament, Lower Saxony Police etc.
Not to mention Latin American countries which are the fastest growing adopters for GNU/Linux. - erudite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Finally people using linux in Oz? Umm - many pioneers of linux apps in Oz. Crikey. Many high-level users of BSD for palming large enterprise messages for example. Including government - maybe you should ask the people at 90east about this. Crazy linux newbies that they are.
Wouldn't be surprised if there is linux code in our coastal defense network. Faaark. - erudite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Umm - Novell? Open Source? Linux? Umm.
Goes to prove that Australia is a tiny little backwater hanging like a groffnut from the bottom of Asia.
And I live in Sydney - seem to remember being paid lots to migrate 3.12 to 4 networks, never an open source model there. Seem to remember my boss throwing a copy of NT on my desk after a long boozy lunch (big hi-tech NSW govt department) and me getting paid as a contractor to work the thing out and Novell lost.
Server platforms - I'm yet to ***** see the advantage of NetWare Linux over any other distro. This is ***** but Aussies will take it in the same way they take 50+% tax. Morons. - Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2What ever happened to our favourite prison colony? They could have got Oz distro Puppy Linux for free, with much better support (and no Novell suits). Must have been drunk when they signed up . . . "Oh Suse Anna don't you cry for me"
PS don't throw me on the barbie (not even the inflateable kind)
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