By Richard Thurston
Published: Thursday 08 February 2007
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Richard
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UK
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Angry Voter
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Why is the UK such a soft touch?
Other countries in Europe seem willing to explore new ideas such as the use of Open Source & Linux.
Why are UK public authorities so wedded to teaching and using only Microsoft products and those of other large suppliers.
Even for web hosting: Many business & private web-sites are hosted on Linux or Unix; most (or all?) UK government web-sites are hosted on Microsoft.
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