[Liverpool] [Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Don't go to the Isle of Man is you can help it!]

[Richard Smedley]

Cancel your Ferry tickets, or at least take
some Knoppix disks with you ;-/


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Paul Mobbs <mobbsey at gn.apc.org>
Reply-To: mobbsey at gn.apc.org
To: fsfe-uk at gnu.org, oxlug at lists.oxlug.org
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Don't go to the Isle of Man is you can help it!
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:58:30 +0000
I suppose an island that still regards homosexuality as a crime must be a bit 
backward, but the mid-80s???

P.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,13270,1363873,00.html

Isle of Man moves over to Microsoft

Jack Schofield
The Guardian, Thursday December 2, 2004


The Isle of Man announced this week that, as part of its joined-up government 
strategy, it was moving everything to Microsoft Windows. No doubt this 
cheered up a company implicated, along with EDS, in the biggest computer 
crash in British government history. In technology terms, however, it 
represents the island's belated move into the mainstream rather than a 
cutting-edge development.

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