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Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source
caitsith01 writes "An effort is currently underway to embarrass the Australian Federal Government into adopting open source software. As this story explains, the Australian Democrats have put questions on notice in Parliament that will require all government ministers to disclose how much money their departments spend on Microsoft products each year. The idea is to force open source issues to the fore by showing just how much money Microsoft receives from the government. It could be a smart approach - the average taxpayer knows little or nothing about OSS, but will rapidly form and express vocal opinions about the government wasting money. The article also mentions that a bill may be introduced to Federal Parliament to mandate the consideration of open source solutions (you may remember this story about an Australian state trying to introduce similar legislation). Some quotes from the article: "What the country doesn't need is to be tied into a profit-maximising licensing system, and the way to combat that is to get government to break out of the paradigm." On the other hand, the (right wing) Liberal Party criticises suggestions that use of open source should be compulsory as "hi-tech affirmative action.""
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"How much money does Microsoft spend on each minister. That would be truly embarassing, specially in the US."
Do you see US politicians being embarrased about being bought by Big Corp? I don't. Quite the opposite, actually. The entire cabinet is full of old-boy club members handing out favors to each other. And nobody cares.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
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Maybe if the Greens or Labor had said this I could take it seriously.
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Microsoft will quake in their boots.
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Who are these GNAA fools, and why don't they have anything better to do?
You lose nothing when givng Linux a try.
Maybe if your time is worth nothing to you. To me, my time is better spent doing other things than "giving Linux a try," like, for instance, shagging my girlfriend.
In MS Office, Sally frequently gets "It appears you are typing a letter" message. Does she know how to turn it off? Is there a toll free MS support number she can contact?
Here's exactly what happens:
It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?
* Get help writing the letter
* Just type the letter without help
* Don't show this tip again
What part of "don't show this tip again" don't you understand? ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
Ahem.
What about " Program performed illegal operation. Instruction could not be Read" messgaes? Those pop-ups? Those BSODs? Does BSOD come with a Help button?
I guess Kernel Panics don't come with help buttons either? Last time I used Linux the freaking panel crashed instantly after login.
Please.. think before you troll.
I think you're the troll here. Don't be a cunt.
on /. you could better explain it like:
There is microsoft with its windows product line, and there is linux with it various distirbutions.
the democrats are like the thirth party: BSD, small but with their own motto (free!).
By the way its has been proven: BSD is dying 8-).
Because of course, linux is free. If you don't value your time, that is.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Posix has nothing to do with the reasons you quoted it is an API to access OS functions just like, Win32 is an API to access the functions in Windows, it is in no way superior to Win32 I won't however say it is inferior they just encompass differen't philosophies, I'm sick of Posix being displayed as some kind of wonderfull feature truth beknown its an outdated API which is currently holding back the various Un*x and linux.
:P) and being dependant on IBM/Redhat (Other US companies), and just wait till the US starts introducing laws to limit the spread of OSS, just look at what there doing to OpenBSD, one wrong step and OH! NO! we don't want that it would be giving technology to our enemies WTF!!!!!, I don't like to assume things I don't really have any idea about but I know Xenophobia when I see it.
As for Open comunication standards, XML my friend it is the way of the future and it may suprise you but Microsoft is doing a hell of alot more to support it than Linux (BTW. without encryption or any other missunderstood MS feature tacked on pure W3C compliant XML).
On the other hand I do accept that it is a bad thing to limit yourself to a particular software system, perhaps all Ausies need to get toghter and design and Ausie OS that'll show 'em how its done.
BTW. I see no difference between beeing dependant on Microsoft (A US company
When I went to utas, we learned Modula-2 on Macs (the compsci dept had NO pc's) AND WE LIKED IT!