"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 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. > > -- > Joe Baptista > www.publicroot.org > PublicRoot Consortium > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The future of the Internet is Open, Transparent, Inclusive, Representative > & Accountable to the Internet community @large. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Office: +1 (360) 526-6077 (extension 052) > Fax: +1 (509) 479-0084 > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:00 PM, der.hans 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 >> -- >> # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.ABLEconf.com/ >> # ABLEconf.com - Free Software conference September 20th in Phoenix >> # Molotov Bible - religion thrown at other people in order to cause an >> # explosive situation - der.hans >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -