__/ [ Ramon F Herrera ] on Wednesday 13 June 2007 04:00 \__
> 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
>>
>> >> Welcome toDemocraticRule....
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> > -Ramon
>>
>> But under the Bush Administration actually expenditures for government
>> agencies purchasing Linux products and services has skyrocketed.
>>
>> Items include:
>>
>> A multibillion dollar contract from NASA with HP for Linux/Unix.
>>
>> Increasing usage and expenditure by the DoD and armed services for Linux
>> products and services especially work in embedded Linux for hardware.
>>
>> The outright delay of the FAA and other agencies to use Vista.
>>
>> --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?).
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