What I don't understand is why the UK doesn't have a government supported OS (probably best to have a linux distro I'd say) - a small fraction of the over-spend on a typical government run IT project (one of the NHS ones probably) would give you enough to buy Canonical and mould them to your will.

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Some figures - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3734504.stm, single project overspend of £24 billion GBP (side issue: why isn't that the suppliers problem for arsing up their estimate); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd., gives Canonical revenue at around £30 million USD.

How the hell do they manage to arse things up so badly.