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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