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@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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