[CS-FSLUG] Australian Government to use open source to break lock-ins

[Fred A. Miller]

On Thu April 14 2005 5:56 am, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" wrote:
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/pp.php?id=214305056&fp=16&fpid=0
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>   Government to use open source to break lock-ins
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> Julian Bajkowski
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> 11/04/2005 13:52:59
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> IT vendors pushing costly proprietary software lock-ins have been warned
> that feeding at the $4.2 billion IT trough of the Australian taxpayer is
> over and a strict and a new procurement diet for vendors will be
> personally enforced by the Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz.

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GREAT - thanks for posting this! This action WILL cause an ENORMOUS rippling 
effect with other governments, and shock waves will hammer MickySoft for 
sometime to come!

Fred

-- 
The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped
in their warehouse..."