Don’t trust anyone over 40.
by T. Colin Dodd
The decision to go with Microsoft does not obligate the Chilean government to go with Microsoft, but facilitates and encourages its usage. The Chilean government structure is the host for Microsoft and its various products. Bloggers in Chile have decried the decision as being made by 40 year olds who did not grow up with technology and thus do not understand the real implications of this Microsoft decision.
There’s still a lack of English translations for a lot of this (another way of saying this is being ignored in the Anglophile tech press), but for polyglot readers, here are some updates:
Acuerdo Marco: Microsoft “lo ha hecho bien”
El 5º Poder [A HUGE list of blogger reaction from El Francotirador]
August 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
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.