[Gllug] Grovernment offices forced to buy MS

[Xander D Harkness]

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 stated I was concerned about the nepotism of this gov and M$.  Jobs
are just given to M$ such as the NHS' new online medical records
(scary).

I was also concerned about the fact that M$ were being used for
communication between gov depts.  The Gov. gateway deliberately
prevented communication.

And I stuck in a whole load of supporting docs :-)

Have fun
Xander
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