County Meeting

[technomage]

we can still continue. however, since the county board made it obviously 
clear that they wouldn't change unless forced, I think the next step is to 
start drumming up some public opinion (especially where the county budget is 
concerned).

btw, that 5% of the budget figure I think is a bit low. I know people that 
work in the county at some point and they say its a bit higher (like 8% when 
you figure in training costs, updates, hardware updates, software revision, 
license fees and other "hidden" costs of doing business with microsoft).

also, I've gotten the impression that most of the board members are of the 
"point and click" barely computer litterate types (point and click and hope 
the hell it runs).

since they have taken the stance to be adversarial, it gives us a lot more 
lattitude to act to get them to change their minds in their own best 
interest. However, we should not be openly adversarial about it.

Technomage

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 12:00 am, you wrote:
> Robert Bushman wrote:
> ...
>
> > My humble opinion:
> >
> > Maricopa has no serious intent to do anything to
> > alter its dependant relationship with Microsoft,
> > and is not interested in trialing Linux. We are
> > barking up the wrong tree.
>
> Figgers.  Thanks much for your update, Robert, and everyone who helped
> make it happen.  It was a worthy project.
>
> Steve
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