Proprietary software and the fall of Rome
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| Why am I so confident? Because I compete with proprietary software vendors
| every day and it's getting harder and harder to lose to them. I'm very
| serious about this. It is hard to lose to proprietary software vendors if an
| open-source project or company is even remotely credible, because we have
| cost, quality, model, and distribution on our side.
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The trainwreck-waiting-to-happen that is UK government IT spending
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| Think about that. Think about what this means: eight vendors have a
| tremendous amount of leverage over the taxpayers of the United Kingdom.
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| The UK, in other words, is a captive of its IT vendors. That is shockingly
| wrong.
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