Quebec sued for m$ purchases

Joshua Zeidner jjzeidner at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 19:50:37 MST 2008


  "Mr. Ballmer, they're not buying 'Mojave Experiment'."

  "Initiate Phase II: Booze, Whores and Drugs for the entire Quebecois
parliament."

  :)

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Joe Baptista <baptista at publicroot.org>wrote:

>
> Our governments up here are very corrupt.  Microsoft has excellent
> marketing skills too that appeal to the civil servants.  Booze, whores and
> drugs - it was like that in the 80's and I have no reason to suspect
> anything has changed since I was with the premiers office in Ontario.
> Booze, whores and drugs and a little payola I'm sure.
>
> cheers
> joe baptista
>
> P.S. thanks for the story - would of missed it otherwise.
>
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> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:00 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>
>> moin moin,
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/27/tech-quebec.html
>>
>>
>> http://facil.qc.ca/en/media/20080828-facil-contests-the-quebec-government-purchasing-methods-for-software
>>
>> We all know it's rentals anyway.
>>
>> But, 400,000 GNU/Linux desktops in France?
>>
>> Netherlands banned proprietary software for government.
>>
>> No wonder the European economy is doing better :).
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
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