[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu and Mozilla, the inevitable alliance

[Nic Roets]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Helge Reikeras <helge.reikeras at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Universities need to produce graduates with the skills society requires.
>

Universities should not teach APIs or object models or tools. They should be
above that.


> Employers want to stick to the platform that graduates are familiar with
> (lower training costs). ISVs want to develop software for the platform
> where they can sell most. End-users want to be on the platform where they
> can find the most and the best software. Businesses and government are
> resistant to make the switch due to high switching-costs. This is the
> nature of M$ tight grip the OS world. What we need to ask ourselves is,
> what can we do to break it?
>
>
What is more important than fighting MS or closed source, is fighting closed
standards / formats. And if you look at sars efiling or infoslips, we have
not succeeded.
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