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Story: Socitm names new president
Promoting Microsoft...
is written into his MoU with Microsoft.
This is the same man who originated the term "doing a Newham" - ie the process of feigning interest in Linux to get, ahem, 'preferential arrangements' with Microsoft.
This is the same man who, in line with Newhams MoU with Microsoft, starred in Microsoft's "Get the Facts" roadshow.
As Dr John Pugh MP has stated, "Microsoft is *very* close to the UK Government, and they intend to stay there".
Richard Steel's appointment as President of Socitm is a very canny play from the multiply-convicted monopolist.
Of course the contractual obligation to promote Microsoft in the UK Public Sector will not affect either his credibility, or his bias-free ability to perform this new role, nobody could possibly think that, could they?
More of the adventures of Richard here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/28/socitm-chief-apologises-leak
Oh, and did we forget to mention that Mr Steel is a New LaBliar darling? Part of this rotten governments love affair with Microsoft that costs the taxpayer ten *billion* pounds per annum in failed and failing IT projects?
Roll on the general election, where *all* the opposition parties now have a policy on Open Source software...
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