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Microsoft's Bulk Deal With New Zealand Collapses

Posted by kdawson on from the door-off-hinges dept.

vik writes "The latest 3-year, pan-government deal that Microsoft has been establishing with the New Zealand government since 2000 has collapsed, opening the doors to the wider use of open source software in government. The NZ State Services Commission (already a prize-winning user of open source) says in a statement that it '...became apparent during discussions that a formal agreement with Microsoft is no longer appropriate.' Having lost their discount, individual government departments will now have to put their IT requirements out to tender individually."

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  1. Re:RIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. Maybe if you Linux nerds would stop eating toe cheeze and start working on making your shit OS more user-friendly so that somebody won't have to spend months having to learn a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, but we know that'll never happen.

  2. Re:RIP by vintagepc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like my toe cheeze and CLI, you insensitive clod!

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  3. pgoat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the same operation >and I 4robably