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Re: [News] Federal Aviation Administration Thinks About Moving to Desktop Linux

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 00:15 Mark Kent wrote:

> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 23:43 Mark Kent wrote:
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux
>>>> Combo
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
>>>>| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
>>>>| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
>>>>| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
>>>>| computers pass their shelf life.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>>
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
>>>> 
>>>> And Dell will have even /M O R E/ pressure to preinstall GNU/Linux.
>>> 
>>> The question is going to become whether the US government's agencies
>>> have more power than Microsoft.  At this stage, I would say that they do
>>> not.
>> 
>> "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth
>> of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic
>> state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government
>> by an individual, by a group,"
>> 
>> .. so what exactly are you implying, Mark?:-)
>> 
> 
> Well, I'd say that you've pretty much hit nail on head.  I do not
> believe that the US is a democratic state any more.  The root of the
> evil there is the lack of caps to funding into political parties, all
> their other problems stem from that single one, in my view.  Oh b*gger,
> I wish I could say something not controversial at these moments, but I
> just can't think of anything!

Heh - so what did you do for a living *before* you joined the Diplomatic
Corps then, Mark:-)
(stir, stir!)

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