September 09, 2005
OSW: Julian Bond - The culture of the Office Memo
He provided free chocolate biscuits, so this talk much be good ;-)
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The problem this causes is that everyone is worried about going into print because of the office politics.
Runs against the geek imperative - tell everyone you know everything you know so you appear knowledgeable. More Machievellian - knowledge is power.
The software may be free, and easy to do, but big corporates don't have the right people to let them do it. Hard to make a profit providing Open Source Software (OSS) to FTSE companies, as the overhead of process ramps up the cost but no-one wants to pay lots of money for free software. Much more opportunity selling solutions to small companies.
He's also set-up an aggregator of UK political blogs.
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