Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-25 Thread der.hans
Am 23. Jul, 2010 schwätzte keith smith so: It is great the Government is using some open source / free software.  And they also released some into the public domain is great.  I would also offer a word of caution - make sure any software the government released is free from any type of

Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-23 Thread der.hans
Am 09. Jul, 2010 schwätzte j...@actionline.com so: moin moin Joe, Now, if only we could get a little of this common sense in Washington D.C. We have a little. We need lots :). Obama's White House team has been using Free Software. More importantly, it's been releasing Free Software.

Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-23 Thread keith smith
...@lufthans.com wrote: From: der.hans pl...@lufthans.com Subject: Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 11:15 PM Am 09. Jul, 2010 schwätzte j...@actionline.com so: moin moin Joe, Now, if only we could get

RE: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-10 Thread ChasM Marshall
Joe, I hate to be negative, but it's only a proposal. I don't see much traction to this U.K. proposal although, I am totally FOR it. For example, the Brazilian government successfully banned proprietary software. Down there, the MS product line has a much smaller installed base. Their

Re: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft

2010-07-10 Thread Tim Bogart
. They will do what ever it takes to see to it that doesn't happen. Sorry folks. Tim From: ChasM Marshall chasm...@hotmail.com To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Sat, July 10, 2010 6:06:20 PM Subject: RE: UK Government says, Dump Microsoft Joe