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"Big Unnamed Financial Institution"

Posted Jul 22, 2003 16:31 UTC (Tue) by vsp (guest, #1893)
In reply to: "Big Unnamed Financial Institution" by VeniDormi
Parent article: 2003 Kernel Summit: requirements panel

I thought that companies like that are on the front of courageous moves and pioneering. It's ridiculous that they don't want to even be associated with the event, like it would be a warez conference or something, not a very proud gathering of brilliant minds. They'll probably be loud to announce they run linux when the time comes, but for now they prefer to be in the crowd. It' a shame...


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"Big Unnamed Financial Institution"

Posted Jul 22, 2003 19:52 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

In some cases, companies don't want it to be known, because they consider their use of free software a competitive advantage. This is apparently often the case with Python, and I can imagine that some organizations would take the same approach to their OS (unfortunately).

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