[SLL] Interesting BBC program on Open Source

[(Ted Harding)]

On 17-Jan-07 Creede Lambard wrote:
> Yesterday the BBC World Service devoted their "Global Business"
> program to open source software. Interestingly, they only briefly
> touched on Linux (calling it "massively successful", I think was
> the term they used), concentrating instead on hybrid offerings
> like OpenXchange that use the Open Source model but charge for
> support and guaranteed compatibility -- an approach that's probably
> more interesting to businesses who want to know, "How can I make
> money off of this thing?"
> [...]

Also note the BBC news item which can be read on their website:

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6270657.stm

  "Open source gets European boost"
  Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 15:49 GMT

And the Early Day Motion in the UK Parliament, referred to at the
end of the above BBC news item, can be found at:

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752&SESSION=885

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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