LinuxWorld Australia: St George Endorses Licensing Open Source Software

"Purchasing open source software provided by commercial companies is a good thing and installing it on more systems to reduce licensing costs is unethical, according to St George Bank's chief manager of open systems Michael Page.

"Page, who presides over the bank's loosely defined 'open systems,' which includes all non-mainframe systems, attended Novell's Brainshare conference earlier this year..."

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