[Gllug] Grovernment offices forced to buy MS

[Mark O. Stitson]

Just think about the German federal government which has just decided to
convert nearly all their servers to Linux, despite recommendations by a
consultancy to go partly with Linux and partly with Windows 2000 Servers.

The politicians decided they were not going to be dictated to by one
large corporation.

Mark

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, 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
>
>
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