[Gllug] Grovernment offices forced to buy MS

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 26 Apr, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
> richard hillesley wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 25 April 2002 16:10, you wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:21, John Hearns wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:40, Jim Bailey wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25003.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Is there anything we can do appart from vote them out?
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>Several things:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>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.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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
> 
> 
   Does anyone have experience of this sort of thing? I am trying to dig out
some help via students on legal courses, thinking that students are less
likely to be stuck in a rut, even if they know nothing about software.

-- 
Chris Bell


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