[Scottish] The Future of the LUG

[Colin.Speirs at scotland.gsi.gov.uk]

> > Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk 
> like the 
> > Scottish
> > Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to 
> shift off MS; not to 
> > mention encouraging similar moves in the public sector at 
> large.  Pat talks 
> > about this (with text of parliamentary questions, etc.) on 
> his website 
> > (www.patrickharviemsp.com).  
> 
> It's not so much getting politicians away from using 
> Microsoft's products (although it could save a substantial 
> amount) as getting them away from closed, secret, non-free 
> document formats.  I can foresee problems ahead when all 
> those documents written in Word 95 suddenly aren't readable 
> when Office 2005 comes out and support for older formats is 
> dropped (not that Microsoft would do such a thing, would they?)

As an IT person working in IT for the Scottish Executive I'm saying nothing.
However I think your chances of getting anything done in the short term
considering there has just been a massive Microsoft based OS roll-out are
minimal to say the least.

cds


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