Re: [gnome-cy] Windows in Welsh, at public expense?

[Dewi Jones <Dewi Jones gwelywiwr org>]

Then it could work that if at least Mandrake 9.2 (as Rhoslyn posted a 
screenshot earlier this month) as a commercial offering of a Welsh 
desktop available in Wales got more exposure, then that's it, Microsoft 
would be getting unfair funding.  (?) Phew!

Dewi.



Ysgrifennodd Alan Cox:

> On Iau, 2003-11-20 at 17:55, Chris M. Jackson wrote:
>  
>
> > All of this, assuming that nobody puts together a specialist Linux 
> > distribution targeted at Wales in the meantime.
> >    
>
> Even a minor Welsh distribution would help. At that point the assembly
> would be breaking a lot of policy by funding competition to an existing
> commercial organisation.
>
> In effect if it exists its very hard for people like the WDA to fund a
> rival without lots of inconvenience, especially if they know in advance
> it exists.
>
> A long time ago the WDA actually had to kill a roadshow it had planned
> for setting up a funded Welsh ISP to kickstart Internet in welsh
> business because a commercial company offering that existed. Even though
> it was planned for, budgetted for and designed...
>
>
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