Yesterday, I was at the OSS|What can it do for me? - seminar. Nice and cosy in the audience.My English interpretation of some catchy quotations:

• "The [OSS-] world is so fast that the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it."
• "There is no such thing as an OSS|FS business model, but there are plenty of business cases." -- Toon Knapen.
• There is some logic in: "To invest in what is to be, instead of what is now."
• "For public services it is just common sense to invest tax money into ICT only when the result becomes available under a public license."

• "OSS is like style-dancing and bungy-jumping: You can sit down, watch and talk about for ages... But you need to get your ass up and do it to really know what it is like." -- Steven Noels.

In every case I had a plesant time, and was glad to notice that the idea is catching on (maybe the title of the seminar just selects 'that' portion of the audience?) And even better multiple times the "Cocoon" project was mentioned (without us doing it!)

Shocking to hear this guy mention that the Belgian goverment just can't do without buying more MS licensenses (yet).

And, yes, resistance is futile:

I was so stupid to try and make this guy really see how scary that dependency is... They basicly pay their Belgian taxes with office licenses :-)

10:38:02 AM