> > Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk
> like the
> > Scottish
> > Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to
> shift off MS; not to
> > mention encouraging similar moves in the public sector at
> large. Pat talks
> > about this (with text of parliamentary questions, etc.) on
> his website
> > (www.patrickharviemsp.com).
>
> It's not so much getting politicians away from using
> Microsoft's products (although it could save a substantial
> amount) as getting them away from closed, secret, non-free
> document formats. I can foresee problems ahead when all
> those documents written in Word 95 suddenly aren't readable
> when Office 2005 comes out and support for older formats is
> dropped (not that Microsoft would do such a thing, would they?)
As an IT person working in IT for the Scottish Executive I'm saying nothing. However I think your chances of getting anything done in the short term considering there has just been a massive Microsoft based OS roll-out are minimal to say the least.
cds
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