[plug] Gold ! :)

[senectus]

Heh.. 

I was just reading this after getting back from a painful customer.. And now
I feel a little better (or maybe it the coffee.. ;-P )
Gotta love how MS thinks its "anti competitive".. You'd think that THEY
would know by now what anticompetitive means... LOL

Time to start a local gov e-mail storm over getting this pushed here as
well.. don't you guys agree?


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au [mailto:plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au] On
Behalf Of Kai Jones
Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:04 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Gold ! :)

Yep, I'm glad they did that too !

That's one of the reasons why I don't understand why Microsoft is so 
"unhappy" with the result, it's not like the government has passed a 
bill saying "You...will...use...open...source" but Microsoft are still 
lobbying and complaining about it anyway, then again they're a monopoly 
so what do we expect ?

Ben Jensz wrote:
> I'm glad it passed as being to "consider" and not to "prefer" OSS 
> myself.  Personally I think they should be using the right software for 
> the job.  But they should demand open standards and should at least 
> seriously evaluate OSS to see if it would fit the task appropriately and 
> use it where it is appropriate.
> 
> 
>    Ms Dundas' Bill calls for government to "consider" the purchase of
>    open source software in procurement plans. The original version of
>    the Bill would have required the ACT to "prefer" open source software.
> 
> 
> 
> / Ben
>
> Kai Jones wrote:
> 
>> Dunno if anyone has seen it yet...
>>
>> Microsoft steams over open source Bill
>>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8173918%255E15
306,00.html 
>>
>>
>> of course Microsoft aren't happy with it -
>>
>> "Microsoft labelled the legislation "anti-competitive", and warned 
>> that it could damage the Australian software industry."

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