[ILUG] Sunday Business Post Article June 2004

[Kevin Buckley]

Hi all,

The interview took place last Monday and Tuesday. The writer of the
article June Caldwell did not know anything about Linux/OSS up to this. 
I tried my best to educate her as best I could, I explain about a lot of
very large corporates(HP, IBM etc.) supporting Linux and I sent June
Caldwell links to backup each of these. 

I explained about Munich, Paris, Brazil and many more. I also gave links
to backup each of these, since it was a learn curve, she may have mixed
up some information. But all in a all I think she wrote a good article
and especially where the points about "Linux looking good" was placed,
it made Linux/OSS look an extremely strong option.

Maybe its time as The Irish Linux User Group we compiled some home
truths about where Linux/OSS is been used on this island and put it up
on www.linux.ie. e.g. what the banks are using(AIB), what certain
political parties are using in hosting party websites, why so many
solicitors are moving to Linux/OSS for security reasons etc. etc. etc.

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Kind regards,

Kevin Buckley
Managing Director
Mandrakesoft Ireland
P: +353 (0)28 36860     |  kevin.buckley at mandrakesoft.ie
M: +353 (0)86 3220687   |  www.mandrakesoft.ie



On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:43, olearypj at rte.ie wrote:
> Quoting Enda <enda at unison.ie>:
> 
> > 
> > Nial O Broin wrote:
> > > Is research no longer an activity undertaken by journalists?
> > 
> > No.... and especially with regards to the Sunday Papers, its all about
> > corporate sponsored articles where you can buy a biased article for
> > something like 10K and have it printed without a "health warning".
> > 
> > I guess every now again it helps to put an article in that supports
> > opensource so that the corporates that pay for a different story to be
> > printed the following week.
> > 
> >  -Enda.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Irish Linux Users' Group
> > http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/
> > 
> > 
> What a pity the writer didn't explain exactly what free means when applied to
> opensource software. eg freedom to what you chose with it, modify it, install it
> on any number of machines without some multi millionaire demanding a license for
> each installation. He also didn't mention the recent AIB announcement or the
> fact that most of the latest animated movies were made using Linux, or the fact
> that most ISP's use Linux & Apache web servers. The fact that some of the big
> guns in the financial world are changing over to Linux has little to do with the
> cost & more to do with the security & stability it offers!
> Has the committee any ideas about a responce to the Sunday Business Post, might
> be a good opportunity to shout about Linux & where it's going in the world.
> Point out some of the big guns supporting it eg HP, IBM, NASA, AMAZON, etc...
> just a thought.
> 
> 
> Pat.
> 
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