[Gllug] Grovernment offices forced to buy MS

[Xander D Harkness]

richard hillesley wrote:

>On Thursday 25 April 2002 16:10, you wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:21, John Hearns wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:40, Jim Bailey wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
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>>>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25003.html
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there anything we can do appart from vote them out?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Several things:
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>>>I see that I can't ping the www.govtalk.gov.uk site.
>>>It went 'off the air' right in front of my eyes.
>>>Shame on anyone DOSing it.
>>>
>>>I WAS going to flag up a snippet I was on there yesterday -
>>>about the Govt funding a study with the open source community,
>>>re. use of Linux browsers with their Gateway site.
>>>Anyone heard hide or hair of this one?
>>>      
>>>
>>I wrote to John Bercow (Conservative MP) who is specifically looking for
>>sleaze and money wasted by this government.
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>
>I don't think that this is a party political issue - the problem is that 
>politicians in general are not that aware of the technological issues -
>and think that Bill Gates is the man in the know ... 
>
>Personally, i don't feel any great enthusiasm for any of them,
>but you would have to hurt me very badly to get me to vote for a 
>tory - I fed a large part of this strory to the register,
>and I would hate to see it being used to promote the tories ...
>who frankly ....
>
>Have fun,
>Richard
>  
>
I think that a very fair point.

While trying to remain apolitical i think that this government and the 
previous always provided 'Jobs for
the boys'.  I may notice it more now because Bill Gates happens to be 
one of the current government's
'boys'

I would rather see an open tender with some fair play.

I am happy to instigate some political warfare on the topic (not on list 
- in the house) to try to prevent these
being handed to M$ and for the market to be opened to all.

Kind regards
Xander


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