Subject: Re: life after Windows....

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Subject: Re: life after Windows....

Posted on: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:22:50 +0100

William Black wrote:
> "Mxsmanic" wrote in message
> news:j47ns4do0vqls75pfl4tfss1uh22bucctq@4ax.com...
>> William Black writes:
>>
>>> German government agencies won't run Windows as there's requirement for
>>> their software to be open source.
>> Agency policies are not written by IT professionals.
>
> In this particular case it wasthe lawyers.
>
> They didn't want their government in a position where Microsoft could hold
> them to ransom.
>

Our local school had some computers donated some years back, but under
the condition that they only run Microsoft software. That's a kind of
ransom on a small scale. I'm not sure how they would be penalized if
they broke the agreement, but I'm not a lawyer.

T.

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