Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Meeting reminder - Free Software Manchester - tomorrow 7pm

[Iain Roberts]

> If anything, I would compare Greenpeace (centralised, top-down
> organisation) to the closed source model and FoE (decentralised,
> grassroots/bottom-up) to free software -but that's more to do with
> how
> they run themselves rather than any of their policies. I can tell you
> that they both run FOSS for some of their IT infrastructure (not sure
> about their desktops) and if you put either of their names into
> Google
> followed by 'open source software' you'll get some interesting
> articles.
> 
> Paul
> 

Friends of the Earth is essentially a Microsoft shop,though I think they run 
their webserver on Solaris and they use the usual smattering of open source 
forums, wikis and CMSs.

At the back end of last year, FoE were migrating *to* MS Exchange and Active 
Directory, with XP (and a few Macs) on the desktop.

Iain.

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