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Story: Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 29 August 2005, 2:38 PM)
Oh dear oh dear! Has no-one learnt any lessons from recent government decisions regarding IT systems. Letting politicians make IT choices based on their political leanings or lobbying by 3rd parties is folly. When even the IT professionals cannot agree on open source vs MS, what chance do dim-witted public servants have? Scotland does not need an air traffic control style fiasco (yes, I actually live here).
On the matter of schools, what advantage would there be in childern learning on non-MS machines when the world of work uses almost exclusively Microsoft Office? Let's think this through shall we.
Green politicians have an anti-big corporation axe to grind and are weilding it without any appreciation of the real issues involved. Leave the IT decisions to IT experts.
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Story: Open source awareness growing in Scotland
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Further awareness of open formats is needed esp. f... Olav Petri -
Olav, learn to read. There's a difference bet... Anonymous -
On open formats: No, YOU learn to read!... Anonymous -
Microsoft's announcement of XML support... Anonymous
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Mr Harvie should be asking his colleagues about th... Anonymous
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Oh dear oh dear! Has no-one learnt any lessons fro... Anonymous -
The decision to use MS in these schools is NO... Anonymous
