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El dom, 13-06-2010 a las 06:45 +0100, Henry Bremridge escribiÃ: > [...] > If however Microsoft (or any proprietary model) comes up with special > software that really makes life easier then they should be able to sell it. I don't know how it works in the UK, but in Spain the government wants: - Something that gets the work done (that's "ideally", because every administration has custom software that "sometimes" satisfies all the requirements). - Someone to ask for solutions in case something went wrong. - Someone to blame when something bad happens (it's easier to save your job when a solution that costs thousands of â fails). The regional government, at some point, realized that in this list the "pay for a license" idea doesn't fit. What they wanted was *support*, and that's one of the OSS business models. For example: the regional health system of Valencia buys SUN hardware because: a. the licenses of Solaris are then almost free, b. the support it's "satisfactory", and c. they have a multinational companty to blame! They've defined an OSS platform for applications that their providers must comply, with JBoss + PostgreSQL (when Oracle it's no needed) + ... you may say "Linux"... Âno! Solaris, because they're covered with SUN's deal. I think the license model is completely wrong for the government, but I agree that moving to a OSS model isn't easy. If you have money to waste and preserve the status quo, then it's almost impossible. I know people working at Red Hat IbÃrica, and seems that the financial crisis has been great for they. Wonder why. Regards, Juanjo -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html