[plug] MS bleeding Australia dry

[Leon Brooks]

Colin Muller wrote:
> "Australia's problem is that while its economy has achieved major
> breakthroughs in recent years in boosting productivity and also
> utilising technology, [it] has fallen behind in the growth of output in
> the IT [information technology] sector," he said.

ie, buying too much gear and software in instead of making it locally.

Fix the national debt, ease the trade imbalance, use Linux?

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