To build on this and create a British equivalent of tech giants such as Microsoft, co-operation and communication between all those involved in the UK’s hi-tech sector - government, researchers, businesses and financiers - was key.
Basically, the BBC said how a report said our hi-tech culture and economy should be better, with more Brits in the industry and better co-operation between financiers, academics, technologists and the government would improve our high-tech life. I didn?t care about the report myself, as I see no problem working with Americans but the above quote did offend me.
Why? Do we want a British equivalent to Billy Gates? He?s a bloody devil 
, and still we reward him the a KBE (Knight of the British Empire , if he was British he would be a Sir). I have no problem with hardware makers, but commercial software makers such as Microsoft are in my eyes evil.
Brits don?t really see how Microsoft are evil, and only has a 12% Firefox market share, unlike some other countries. Most Brits are very ignorant when it comes down with computers, not worrying about the 1 million pieces of spyware Spybot detected. They don?t see a problem with Microsoft. I try to open peoples eyes, and it often works.
I don?t mind shareware authors, because you generally only use it once anyway and they don?t make millions.
I think open-source developers should be encouraged, do you?
Also, I?ve just joined Flickr, the above photo is hotlinked from it. Feedburner subscribers will have the images going in by default.
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