Jeff
>>While this is no excuse for piracy, these [3rd world] companies (and governments) are looking to Linux as a low cost alternative in addition to the Open Source philosophy...<
I don't know whether you regard UK as third world (I'm not English so won't take offence!) but there is a *strong* push here for open source in a number of industries that are hardly poor. A strong lobby of medical doctors, for example, is pushing for open source medical systems that can be shared and managed by all.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
