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The governments themselves also stand to benefit.

The governments themselves also stand to benefit.

Posted Sep 12, 2003 7:22 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
In reply to: The governments themselves also stand to benefit. by bignose
Parent article: Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not (Economist)

They do touch on various benefits of open source though. Like the reasons Münich is choosing Linux.

I personally think it is a pretty okay (and positive in regards to open source) article - you can't fit everything into a single article.


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The governments themselves also stand to benefit.

Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:08 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Yes I think it's a good article too. The Economist tends to be somewhat right-wing and pro-big-business by British standards, but they have been quite supportive of linux.

Off-topic: that umlaut you use ("Münich") isn't quite appropriate: not only is there a standard transliteration "ue" for ü, but Munich is an English name for the city. The German name is Muenchen (or München).

The governments themselves also stand to benefit.

Posted Sep 13, 2003 17:14 UTC (Sat) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link]

> The Economist tends to be somewhat right-wing and pro-big-business

The Economist itself would beg to be characterized as pro-freedom and
pro-free-markets. It is an important distinction.

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