Comments on: Don’t trust anyone over 40. http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/06/dont-trust-anyone-over-40/ Truth happens Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:44:57 +0000 http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/?v=1.0.2 by: Zaine Ridling http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/06/dont-trust-anyone-over-40/#comment-16328 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:30:39 +0000 http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/06/dont-trust-anyone-over-40/#comment-16328 Call me crazy, but just as in Denmark, I'm beginning to believe that a Microsoft rep/lobbyist threw a bunch of cash at the right people for these "against the grain" decisions. You're a small or second-world country and you're buying into Microsoft's lock-in for your government's future data? That's not a rational decision by any measure, given the advanced state of GNU/Linux on the desktop and ODF, and I'm not even mentioning Red Hat's Global Desktop, which would be a boon to office workers. Oy. Call me crazy, but just as in Denmark, I’m beginning to believe that a Microsoft rep/lobbyist threw a bunch of cash at the right people for these “against the grain” decisions.

You’re a small or second-world country and you’re buying into Microsoft’s lock-in for your government’s future data? That’s not a rational decision by any measure, given the advanced state of GNU/Linux on the desktop and ODF, and I’m not even mentioning Red Hat’s Global Desktop, which would be a boon to office workers.

Oy.

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