On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:17, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Tony has been sucking up to Microsoft for a while now. The last time Bill Gates > visited, he was treated like royalty, and Tony was even at the product launch of > Office XP as part of his election campaign. Apparently, the gateway.gov.uk site, > which is part of the e-government initiative to put all government services > online, is fully _owned_ by Microsoft, intellectual property and all. When it > was first set up, all users of 'alternative' (read: non-IE) browsers were locked > out, and it took heavy complaining to change it. After the site was set up, MS > released an advertisement featuring the government people behind the project > (including an MP or two), who said things like "I will always use Microsoft". > > Not that the Australian government is much better. Prime Minister John Howard > bent over backwards to meet with Bill Gates the last time he was here, yet he > totally ignored Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison when they visited. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan >
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