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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> EU Says Governments Could Bar Microsoft From Bidding
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>> | Governments contracting IT work could conclude that Microsoft's
>> | antitrust history constitutes "grave professional misconduct" and ban
>> | the company, according to the European Commission.
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>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147175
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> There is a legitimate legal reasons to ban Micoshaft.
>
> There are now more viruses, malware, sypware, botnetware
> and trojans being released than all of the Micoshaft engineers
> and Micoshaft together can repair PER DAY.
>
> Tax payers are being taken for a ride if their OS maker
> has no fix or even a remote possibility of fixing the flaws.
> There are 320 million botnet PCs.
>
> If staff within governments took to recommending WINDUMMY OSen
> for projects, they could legitimately be sued for professional
> misconduct by open source friendly companies
> because officials have a duty in public life to obtain
> the best products for IT and recommending something that is
> broken and CANNOT be repaired such as the WINDUMMY OSen
> is failure to perform duty.
> If the environment for software has changed, then best
> practices within government must also get revised accordingly.
A colleague of mine had her bank account breached and money stolen yesterday.
Probably her machine too was a zombie... not only would she need to deal with
the nuisance or loss, but the costs of it are /shared/ among all bank
customers.
People are too shy to ban what they come to equate with a 'computer'.
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