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Massachusetts Adopts Open Standards Strategy
prostoalex writes "The state of Massachusetts at a meeting of state information officers adopted a broad-based strategy to move to open standards. The strategy does involve Linux among other open standard solutions, while moving away from Microsoft-based platforms is one of the decisions. State Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss insisted that decision was made on technical grounds and had nothing to do with antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the state of Massachusetts."
Two fringe states on the far edges of political and social issues. The difference is that Massachusetts is small enough that we don't have to care about them in any regard -- except for the senators they send the U.S. Senate.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
If you can save money on IT, maybe you can redirect it to health care or education or better unemployment benefits or debt reduction or even (*gasp*) lower taxes.
You just arrived on this planet didn't you....
If any savings ARE realized, then the politicians will vote themselves a raise, because they did a good job in lowering costs.
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I am a programmer. I am paid to produce syntax not grammar. Deal with it.
I voted for Mitt Romney.
But hey all of us who dont agree with George Bush are liberal communists who hate American and support terrorism.
So please lock me up in a camp where I belong, maybe Hitler was right.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
How do you figure we are wealthy when your hero George Bush just passed trillions in tax cuts? In response I had to vote for a Republican Mitt Romney and now we are downsizing, my tuition is higher because theres less financial aid, the schools are firing teachers by the thousands because theres no money to pay them, the police were fired by the thousands, so yeah thousands of workers are now out of a job here.
Are we wealthy? We were under Clinton, now we actually owe 20 billion dollars or so because we wasted money on the big dig, and our taxes are being lowed to attract people to our biotechnology/service based economy which is taking off.
We are the silicon valley of biotech, so we do have the best hospitals and colleges, our government is broke however.
Why are we going to use Open Source? Because Mitt Romney is a genius, he knows how to cut spending, and while I dont agree with all of his stances, hes exactly what we need at this time.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
I guess it's easy to call people names when you are not standing in front of them. Come over here and call me a bed wetter to my face then you'll be the one pissing in his pants when I break your face.
War is necrophilia.
Too cowardly even to use his pseudonym. Typical republican. Talks shit but won't lift a finger to do anything and scared of his own shadow.
War is necrophilia.