[Gllug] Grovernment offices forced to buy MS

[richard hillesley]

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

> Have fun
> Xander
>


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