[PLUG-TALK] White House goes Open Source

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 00:50:30 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Pete Lancashire
<pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
> You forget that saving money is not in the states (or the big city up
> north) constitution or charter, and think of all the consultants,
> contractors, resellers, Microsoft sales suits, etc that would
> become unemployed of any of these large (Oregon wise) governmental
> bodies adopted open source.
>
> In addition it may break employment contracts where the decision
> makers in IT would be required to have a very basic understanding
> of technology not based on the cost of a suit and shoes or a $99
> lunch.
>
> -pete

May we presume that you are doing what you can to change the situation
for the better by more means than bad-mouthing all governments?

-Denis



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