Linux, schools and zeitgeist
There is a flurry of activity within the Open Source world at the moment as it is dawning on everyone that the fabled “level playing field” promised before the general election which would allow SMEs and Open Source companies to compete with the proprietary software big boys is not going to happen.
The Cabinet Office’s deputy CIO told OSS (in Mandarin-speak) to bugger-off last week and set a classical heat-generating exercise called “show me the evidence” to keep them busy for a while. This is all very sad and I think the Linux Desktop has something to do with it.
For example I agree with the Daily Telegraph and Linux Format’s editor Paul Hudson that Linux is for “experts” not Joe Public. Unfortunately, paradoxically Linux desktops are now good enough and common enough to be easily shown to non-experts (ie most people) which unfortunately include chaps like our Cabinet Office Deputy CIO.
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