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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.""
When are you GNU hippies going to get it through your thick heads? Stop forcing your shit on everyone else, for fucks sake.
Do you ever wonder how much money would it take to "upgrade" all of Australian government to these new "Lunix desktops", how many countless hours will be spent educating them how to use inconsistent GNU interfaces and annoying crashing mess that current selection of "desktop software for linux" represents? After spending more than 5 minutes on a "Linux desktop" anyone with an IQ of more than 20 will run like HELL AWAY FROM IT.
I dunno if you hippies are too busy changing backgrounds on your desktop to notice, but Windows XP is a FINE and STABLE OS, which supports a wide range of common hardware that everyone uses, including USB devices, etc. Last I checked you still couldn't configure X11 to use a built-in laptop PS/2 mouse and USB mouse without rebooting/restarting X/whatever. Yes, you know what I mean. I have a laptop running X11. I buy a $20 optical USB mouse for it. I want to plug it in, and have it automatically work. As it is right now, it doesn't even work after fucking with text files like
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That's a bad thing?
Yes.
Affirmative Action is the crutch that society's dregs use to prop themselves up. There is a natural order to life, and political correctness is an artificial attempt to subvert this.
Fact: Niggers are animals, and deserve to be treated as such. Look at what 'Affirmative Action' has done to our inner cities. Crack houses. Ghettos. All excused by the middle class leftists who live in their safe white intellectual world, far away from the neighborhoods these coonskin marauders have destroyed.
Fact: The disabled are feeble, and don't deserve to have their seed remaining in the gene pool. Mongs, Spastics, Cripples, Dyslexics. All hideous twisted creatures with a menagerie of mental problems. Their arrogance and expectance to be elevated above the status of common man is sickening. They should not be allowed to breed. For even if they have the possibility of raising a normal, healthy child, they shall do their best to abuse genetic therapy to turn the child into a grotesque mirror of themselves.
Fact: Smackheads, Alcoholics and other drug addicts should NOT be rehabilitated. They should be eliminated. A swift bullet through the back of their heads would be far more humane than letting these sallow-faced zombies lurch spasmodically about the sidewalks of our inner cities, preying on the good upstanding citizens whose ability to defend themselves has been stripped away by decades of politically correct litigation. They choose to live like animals, and deserve to die like animals.
"descrimination is bad in any way, shape or form."
As some US President said (Truman?), this is like freeing the slaves from their leg irons and then expecting them to have a fair chance of winning a 100 metre sprint.
'Discrimination' may well have value in righting wrongs.
Alternatively, we could consider the statistics. A vastly disproportionate number of whites get into top universities compared to other races. Either you contend:
- (a) there is some natural genetic reason whites do better (i.e. eugenics ownz)
- (b) there is some sort of bias at the universities
- (c) there is some socio-economic reason other races struggle to get to university and to do as well as whites on their SATs or equivalent
I would hope (a) is unacceptable to you. I think you will find (b) and (c) are more likely explanations - so what do we do about it? Leave things be?
Read Pynchon.
Hi there, Mr.Egg Troll a.k.a Anonymous Coward...
To me, my time is better spent doing other things than "giving Linux a try," like, for instance, shagging my girlfriend.
I see now. Secretary Sally is your girlfriend, and you use Windows, read Slashdot and still have the time to er.. shag. Great! Completely believable.
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
Haha.. you missed the point. When Sally opens up another letter and says:
Dear Egg Troll Shaggy,
she gets
* GEt help writing this letter, all over again!
What part of "don't show this tip again" don't you understand?
And what part of Egg Troll are you, my friend?
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
I don't speak them, I simply screw them. The English, I mean, if you understand them.
I think you're the troll here. Don't be a cunt.
Again! You really got to CuntTroll yourself. Control yourself man.... Secondly, are motherfuckers always female? Something terribly wrong with your English, Logic and Thinking. Oh, I forgot.. you're after all, Egg Troll at Slashdot. Carry on.
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If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
But what are they going to do about the fact that open source software SUCKS!!
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Man, you are a grade a-one fucking retard.
No go suck down on your fathers hose.
Assmonkey.
And right here with your own arguement you managed to expose one of the biggest problems with open source software to date. Mirosoft is packed FULL of features. Hardly anyone uses all of them but once you have a need you'll often discover that their product (bloated though it is) can already do it. In your example with open source, discover a need and then request IBM build it?!? Are you insane? What company can work on that business model??
.NET? Have you tried developing in visual studio .net yet? It's light years beyond anything open source.
I like some of the grass roots movement behind open source but realstically, where's the innovation? What can any one of the open source products offer the average user that MS can not?
What has the open source community got that rivals
My intent wasn't to bash open source. I love that Linux is becoming mainstream enough to make microsoft stand up and take notice. But this arguement about going through your supplier for functionality that should have been there anyway is just plain dumb.
Wow, just what the IT people need- the ignorant masses telling them what software they have to use. Lets not let the IT staff decide that, let's have the OSS wonks and manipulated politicians decide what the IT staff should be working with.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.