[ILUG] Open source software in Irish hospitals?

[ccostelloe at flogas.ie]

> ilug at another.com wrote:
> > 
> > I've heard that they no longer run the opensource version of 
> > Staroffice, and buy the pay for version from Sun at a knocked down
> > price in return for PR, and their faith in opensource desktop
> > application is such that they might consider touching OpenOffice if
> > they ever find one of them ten foot poles.
> > 
> 
> [...snip FUD...]
> 
> Seriously now, who are you working for? If someone put their name to
> this I might have been willing to give it a second's credence but even
> in my current half cut, soft-headed, susceptible state I can see through
> it's throwaway mail account sheen and straw-man argument veneer.
> 
> Thanks for keeping my attention long enough to read drop-jawed all the
> way to the end and the gut-laugh climax that ensued.
> -- 
> Irish Linux Users' Group
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/

On a presumably totally-unrelated note, I understand (from a telephone call apparently from them) that the Sunday Business Post are putting together a Linux article.