El 31/07/2013 21:29, "SuperEngineer" <<a href="mailto:boosys@gmail.com">boosys@gmail.com</a>> escribió: > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 20:42 +0100, Pete wrote: > > I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use > > Windows > > XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in bulk > > licenses, including local councils. Does anyone know how much these > > bulk > > licenses cost and how many the UK Gov't have? > > Realistically, no government, council or borough would consider > switching without support. Their choice of system would therefore be > only those with pro support contracts [which includes Ubuntu/Canonical > who do provide this vital item]... plus the training costs. This is > still a win over repeated MS contracts & licenses. > [and the "this isn't what we were taught in school" syndrome] > > So who out there can convince them the two things they keep missing are > common senses and real budgetary skills. > -- > Bill B. [SuperEngineer] > I seem to have a more positive view: I did email my mp via the <a href="http://www.writetothem.com/">http://www.writetothem.com/</a> website. He is enviormentally driven so I focused on the amount of computers that go to skips. He forward my concerns to treasury. Also contacted the head of arts and culture to see if gnu/linux could be used in libraries. Via twitter. He said they are keeping an eye on it. Bottom line if you feel strongly about it, tell your MP. <a href="http://www.writetothem.com/">http://www.writetothem.com/</a> About training: At the end all most of what people use is a web browser. <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/934/">http://www.xkcd.com/934/</a> If there is interest the economics of it changes: more support companies will show their heads demonstrating with bigger and bigger companies making tbe switch. E.g. Munich claims it saved 10 million euros on the switch. <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux</a> HP tried to say there was no savings or that there were loses but last I knew they could not hold their claim. Goverment has bigger contacts with huge service companies and those can still be broken.