[Fsfe-uk] Newham, was: Brief report: OSS Watch launch conference. (fwd)

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-01-09 04:23:49 +0000 Ramanan Selvaratnam <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> According to ZDNet, the Newham Borough is turning its back to open
> source for security reasons and will deal with Microsoft instead. 
> [...]

There's another article about this at 
http://www.silicon.com/software/os/0,39024651,39117624,00.htm

The quotes from Richard Steel there don't say what the risks are and I 
assumed that it was the risk of integration problems. I wonder if 
ZDNet are jumping to conclusions.

Last month, I was told by someone I consider an expert in the field 
that Newham council had talked too much too early about their 
investigations into GNU/Linux. They thought that Newham had attracted 
MS's special attention and would now be unlikely to actually progress 
to trials. Sadly, it seems Newham won't.

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