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- FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33"British Political Parties Move Away from Windows"
...and hide in the basement where its nice and safe. - st0nes, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Good news, but wow that's an ugly website!
- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24So Microsoft lost two political parties in just one day? As Bill Gates said, "Wow".
- heaintheavy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Why don't they just close the curtains?
- mvent2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Huh? Red Hat and Novell make money from open source. So does Canonical with Ubuntu. They do it through complimentary services such as enterprise support and training. Its a common myth that you cannot make money from OSS, but the GPL has specific wording saying you are allowed to sell open source software under the GPL.
- Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Why wouldn't they make any money?
- hambend, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Best viewed with lynx!"
- Megatog615, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Yea, ugly FAST. Under a front-page digg it loaded in seconds.
Anything that loads fast is beautiful to me. - ruiacp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5So 100% of British political parties switched in just one day?
- fweeky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Plus most people don't make software to make money, most people *use* software to make money. Many of these people will invest in any free software they use because it's in their best interests, be it paying for support or sponsoring developers to add features or fix bugs.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8The US government branches are doing the same. The military especially.. they announced that they are making a huge shift away from Windows last week.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4That was probably the lamest mockery attempt ever.
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Ah yeah, he's not British so he can't be sir.
- warriorscot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3more like a bit of two thirds of the political parties, Britain as a whole is pretty much a 3 party system and a 4 party system in Scotland and Wales
- Garfunkel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Right so using F/OSS won't save them millions in the long run.
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Good point, loaded in well under a second here.
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4My god that site is bad. It makes my eyes sad.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Plus, it's not like the people working for British Parties are retarded, they're all fairly intelligent people. I'm pretty sure they can figure out the differences between Windows and Linux fairly quickly.
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4Unfortunatly for your comment, niether the Labour party or the Conservative party are Liberal. (however the Liberal Democrats are, as the name suggests).
- warriorscot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4They spend a ***** on training anyway it doesnt really make all that much of a difference it will be phased out all the new people will get trained in the new system and the older ones will convert after.
- jbus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2By American standards they are all "liberal". Not that that's a very good measurement, just saying...
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Travel much from out under the bridge?
- dezmo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3when I read the headline I thought it was refering to widespread fear of assasination in the UK, needless to say, I was dissapointed
- sanman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hehe, I honestly thought that's what the article meant, when I first read the title - ie. that politicians were going to sit away from windows in the future, so that they don't get knocked off.
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3Fear, uncertanty and doubt? I have no fear of OS, I am certain that OS is the way forward for a nation that is so Microsoft backed (nearly every school is on Microsoft), and there's no doubt that politications are doing this because its what people want. This is more of a PR stunt then anything.
- zouhair, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Commonwealth citizenship gives you that right
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir - TheCash, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3More like: Bill Gates' response: "Yawn. And?"
Seeing how most government offices in any country are about as unefficient as they could possibly get, (and not because of their choice of operating systems I think) I don't really see how this is the slap in the face to MS and Windows that the author seems to think it is. More then likely, it was a cost cutting move that may or may not work out for them in the long run, no matter how they want to spin it. As salaries are usually the last thing to be cut anytime government or political offices decide to trim the fat, I'm pretty sure they don't use name brand ink cartridges in their printers either, and I doubt HP is losing any sleep over that loss. - JonForTheWin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Yah 'cause Ubuntu is like SO HARD TO USE
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3...coming from somebody called "Mr Assman".
- naio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Tell you to STFU?
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What about the BNP?
- Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3...well, hey. At least it renders pages more correctly than IE6 ;)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If you want to vote "liberal" I would vote Labour. The Lib Dems don't have a chance of gaining power in the foreseeable future, and the Tory's don't have a chance of receiving my vote in the foreseeable future. In reality though, all three parties kinda stand for the same thing. They have to go for the median voter to gain power, and that means they all have to lie around the center ground.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yes, but the Dept. of Labor and various other Government agencies have just re-upped their 5 year Enterprise agreement with MS.....
- JonForTheWin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I've got a bridge I'd like to sell them.
- generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh, except for Trolltech. They licensed their toolkit QT under the GPL and make tons of money off it to proprietary companies, which in turn helps out the GPL version.
That little thing called the GPL enables companies to make money because proprietary companies then have to buy their proprietary license and free software helps out the software in total and increases network effects and mindshare. Lovely, copyleft in action :) - generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So wrong. Research how the GPL and copyleft works and protects developers AND the customer, and the product itself.
- generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It's because they got incompetent transistion teams who insisted on them spending a ton of money for silly reasons.
Check out successes like Extremadaura, Brazil, GuadaLinex, Red Flag, etc. - tomzo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Buried for linking to what could be the lamest website in the world - what is this - 1997?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The BNP are extreme right wing, that's why they wern't mentioned in those three more "liberal" parties. Of course the BNP isn't liberal, do you even have to ask?
- richardiscool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Badum tish.
- mousebite, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yellow and Blue fonts...Weapons of Mass Distraction...
- Y0tsuya, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1He's a KBE since 2005, but no "Sir".
- eliasg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2When I read the headline I wondered if they meant moving away from MS Windows or literally moving away from the windows (in light of the recent terror threats).
- SJKat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Because you can still guesstimate their position from their shadows. Also, UV-light scope helps.
- stockjones, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The person that built that website said: "I did it all in vi", because it sure looks that way. Advancing technology one serial terminal at a time.
- anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -7/+7I'm all for open source, but I do think that a lot of people see open source as the be all and end all of software. If everything was open source, no one would make money. If no one makes money, people go out of business.
- sanman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Coz they like to do it in the daylight, so they can see who they're screwing.
- myfanwy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2hope they have good lights
it's never fun working in the dark -
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