Plone NGO Mailing List Christian Aid go for Microsoft over OpenSource

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>>> ngo 11/11/06 10:23 >>>

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:29:21 -0800, Zahid Malik  
<z.malik at fry-it.com> wrote:

> Sorry if this is slightly off-topic but I though it was an interesting
> piece (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6124582.stm) on Christian
> Aid's arguments for using Microsoft over Open Source. Some of these
> are relevant to Plone's entry into NGO's. You can see what slashdot
> thought of it all
> (http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/09/152257.shtml).

This is a pretty uninformed article, and as mentioned on Slashdot, the  
people don't seem to understand the difference between code and data.

I have actually spoken to these people a while back about using open  
source (if I'm not mixing up people here) * and Plone * and I won't say  
more than that I'm not surprised that they ended up going with Microsoft.

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