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Aussies cave to ISC blackmail

Hmmm. Interesting what turns up in the mail on the same day - two similar sized populations coming to opposite conclusions about the same facts. Byron's interesting and well-researched piece in USA Today reminds us that the City of Munich (population 1.2 million) has voted to use Linux on its 14,000 desktops despite a higher price ticket because it's sufficiently good and gives the users control over their own destiny:

"On price and technical criteria the advantage was Microsoft's, but the gap was not that big," Maack says. "On strategic issues, it was clearly open-source, and the gap was very great."

Meanwhile in South Australia (population 1.4 million) the state government claims open source software in general is poor quality and is happy to have its decisions made for it by others so as to avoid the bullying tactics of 'Big Byte'. Time will tell which is the right conclusion, but I know which one I'd pick.

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