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Story: Shadow chancellor slams government over open source
Cliff top driving
From your comments I assume you make your money from proprietary software and are feeling a bit nervous of all the buzz around Open Source.
.. and yes indeed I do charge for my services. The "Free" in Free software is as in "Free Speach" as well as "Free Beer", but the only thing that's free (beer) is the software source code itself. You quite often even have to pay for the compiled binaries. Support, training etc is of course to be paid for.
I run a small company that deals with other small companies and helps them run their own computer systems using mainly Free/Open Source Software and have been doing so for 7 years or so. So I guess I have been riding this "Bandwaggon" for a while now.
You don't have to read the actual stuff that Microsoft produces, it gets reproduced by so many "Independant" journalists you don't have to.
As for IBM being bad or good, they are neither. Microsoft is also neither good nor bad. They are both just capitalist organisations doing what they do. Microsoft did famously go a bit beyond par and got their corporate knuckles rapped for it. In fact they have done this quite a few times now, but then you don't call a wolf bad for eating your sheep. You might even hunt it down and shoot it, but it's just a wolf being a wolf and taking advantage of the situation.
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Story: Shadow chancellor slams government over open source
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Typical MP's talking about something they do not k... pjc158
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Agreed dogStar -
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The genie is out of the bottle andrewdonoghue -
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Debate is healthy andrewdonoghue
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Interesting... pjc158
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Now you're just being perverse Andrew Meredith
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Kop out... pjc158
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Apples and Oranges Andrew Meredith
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From your reply... pjc158
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Fed up .. Andrew Meredith
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Dont be fed up... pjc158
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It was a pun .. Andrew Meredith
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Loss leader ? Andrew Meredith
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Look at Ubuntu smorgan3
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Another choice but... pjc158
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Ah but... pjc158
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Openness == Security Andrew Meredith
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Microsoft Koolaid Andrew Meredith
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Cliff top driving Andrew Meredith -
Incorrect smorgan3
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OK who is... pjc158
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Open Source != Communism Andrew Meredith
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Circular logic and insults Andrew Meredith
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Not at all .. Andrew Meredith
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