Tipping Point

The City of Edmonton has reached the tipping point. They have realized they have enough staff comfortable with FLOSS to leave M$:
Many IT department staff members are comfortable administrating open-source platforms, Moore says. “There’s already a group of people here in IT who understand that world. But they’ve never been allowed to express their knowledge and understanding, because we’ve been kind of rigid.”

see IT News Canada

There it is. One more obstacle to adoption of GNU/Linux and FLOSS has died of natural causes. The myths are dead.

- Robert Pogson

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

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