On Jun 12, 11:03 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> __/ [ Ramon F Herrera ] on Wednesday 13 June 2007 04:00 \__
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> > On Jun 12, 1:51 pm, John Bailo <jaba...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> RamonF Herrera wrote:
> >> > On Jun 12, 1:00 pm, John Bailo <jaba...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> >> > MA Governor-Elect
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> >> >> Welcome toDemocraticRule....
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> >> > The Clinton Administration started and pursued the big case against
> >> > Microsoft. Not a day had passed after Bush won, when his
> >> > administration dropped the case. Out of some 20 suing states, there
> >> > were two which continued their cases:Massachusettsand another state
> >> > (forget which), both underDemocraticRule.
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> >> > -Ramon
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> >> But under the Bush Administration actually expenditures for government
> >> agencies purchasing Linux products and services has skyrocketed.
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> >> Items include:
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> >> A multibillion dollar contract from NASA with HP for Linux/Unix.
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> >> Increasing usage and expenditure by the DoD and armed services for Linux
> >> products and services especially work in embedded Linux for hardware.
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> >> The outright delay of the FAA and other agencies to use Vista.
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> >> --http://You-Read-It-Here-First.com
>
> > Yeah, we can safely conclude that the Bush Administration has been
> > much more Linux and OSS friendly than the Carter/Johnson and Kennedy
> > administrations combined.
>
> At the time, open source was assumed and the Free software moverment wasn't
> even born (why give birth to something that's already alive and thrives
> everywhere?).
>
> --
> ~~ Best of wishes
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Bailo was comparing Clinton and Bush administrations' support of OSS
when -hopefully- every new administration will be more informed and
supporting of the advantages of OSS. He is not really comparing Reps
v. Dems, he was comparing the state of government/OSS in the 1990s vs.
the 2000s. The sooner date obviously wins.
Since he pulled that trick on me, I am getting back at him...
As a better comparison, it will be interesting to see the support of
the Clinton administration (the next one, that is) for OSS, from from
2009 on.
-Ramon
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