[ILUG] Linux in todays Sunday Business Post

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Kae Verens wrote:
> James McCarthy wrote:
> 
>> "each and every MicroSoft product offers open standards based
>> capabilities- fully functioning, as standard, out of the box"
>>
>> Is the office file formats open standard? nope, meaning this statementis
>> very missleading( I think).

Completely misleading.

I think, the best thing to do, is to email any opposition TD's for your area 
and point out the huge flaws in Mary Hannafin's argument here, that's what I'll 
be doing anyway.

Already the government has been shown to have made a huge mistake and has been 
shown to be arrogant and self righteous in it's blinkered determination to shoe 
horn in the borked E-Voting system.

I think, now that the government's essential ineptetude in the area of IT 
decisions has been exposed... or rather the government's self righetous 
intransigence has been exposed, it would be a good idea to get some opposition 
TDs and maybe even some government back benchers onside, and to take a few pot 
shots at this dubious decision from Mary Hannafin.

If enough noise gets made, maybe some progess can be made, to overcome this 
hair brained decision and we won't have to see our country living with the 
reprocussions of it, in twenty years time.

-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
Embedded Software Engineer

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