[Sheflug] More on Open Source ...

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seeing as there's a mini-thread on open source at the mo, I'm throwing
another URL into it, taken from the Register:

"A new organisation, OpenForum Europe, has been formed to push the benefits
of Open Source software in the UK. But it is an organisation with something
of a past; its moving spirits have been involved in X/Open, Uniforum UK and
its successor Interforum, and the inaugural OpenForum Council membership list
seems to have a considerable amount in common with the membership of
Interforum. The extent to which these organisations succeeded is a matter of
opinion.

"According to a prelaunch OpenForum document leaked to The Register, one
objective of the organisation will be to "broaden the market take up of Open
Source Software (OSS) including Linux." It also intends to avoid repeating
the mistakes that were made over Unix in the 80s and 90s, but there are some
people who think that organisations such as X/Open and Uniforum bear
considerable responsibility for those very mistakes."

Full article at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23433.html

Chris...

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