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Peter Quinn Explains his Resignation
JSBiff writes "Peter Quinn, former CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has given an interview to Pamela Jones over at Groklaw, regarding the people, companies, and events surrounding his resignation. He spins an interesting tale of Microsoft, money, and the politics of technology." From the article: "Now the folks that have say here do not know me from a hole in the wall and the funds were for projects that were totally unrelated to ITD. I clearly had set the priorities for the Bond but this funding is for projects like a new Taxpayers System, new Registry of Motor Vehicles system, etc., all projects desperately needed by the citizens of the Commonwealth. Eric Kriss and I always had a goal of making IT 'a'political and now it was rapidily becoming a political football of the highest magnitude. I took this job in the hopes of making meaningful and institutionalized IT reform. All the previous efforts were about to be for naught as political payback." We discussed Quinn's resignation last month.
If you support the government mandating what software you use, then you're for him.
If you'd rather have the freedom to choose, you'd be against.
Just because he was trying to force people to use OpenOffice.org doesn't mean government should have the power to force you to use a specific software package. Freedom of choice is more important than "sticking it to Microsoft".
Slashdot has descended into just another Microsoft organ, that grinds and wails the Microsoft tale.
Slashdot sucks.
CD Baric
Does anybody know if this was a face-to-face interview? If so, was PJ wearing her IBM badge?
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