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This will be interesting.

This will be interesting.

Posted Oct 1, 2003 16:31 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: This will be interesting. by jre
Parent article: Proprietary software--banned in Boston? (News.com)

Ugh. You're right. They didn't respond and now that I know more about them I don't expect them to. I did point out that their continued accusations that the government can't even keep track of what computers it has is a huge liability with licensing options from BSA organizations like Microsoft. They could save a whole lot of money and potential legal problems by going with Free Software. I'm sure they don't actually care about saving money as much as saving Microsoft so that is unlikely to pursuade them.


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This will be interesting.

Posted Oct 2, 2003 0:11 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Your mail might have raised the issue internally, or it might not, and we might never know. But we have a long way to go and every bit helps.

"People don't notice you when you're there, they notice you when you're still there" (Alan Kay, I think)

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