[oclug] Ottawa Hospital getting their software Audited

[Charles Sutton]

This would be from the Alliance group.  The Alliance group is an 
alliance of interested parties going after small to medium size 
buisnesses.  I had a long convo with a rep at the Alliance group.  This 
has nothing to do with the political party, although it may be political 
itself.
  Companies like MS and Adobe are envolved.  MS has claims of loosing 
millions of dollars in potential sales.  How do they figure this, eh! 
 Anyhow, I see this as a great move.  When end users are faced with 
these types of pressures MS will see the big losses.  There is no way 
that the end user will pay the "Kings ransom" for the MS products. 
 Canadian end users are pretty thifty and will ultimately go for the 
more cost effective choice.  Voila! This is where open source steps in.  

Anyhow, time will tell.  The dream never dies, just the dreamer!

Charles,

Ian Anderson wrote:

>There was a news item on The NewRO this evening about the Ottawa Hospital
>being in hot water for software piracy.  Makes you wonder how many other
>publicly funded organizations are operating in the grey area.
>
>Ian
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