Ignore the open source hot heads, CIOs told
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| Some of the public responses to the article labelled Gibson a "bureaucratic
| parasite" and his concerns "short-sighted".
|
| While Waugh believes the open source model holds better security outcomes
| than its proprietary equivalent, he equally describes the vitriolic reaction
| to Gibson's comments as being 'disgraceful' and says they achieve nothing for
| the industry.
|
| [...]
|
| "I can tell you that at the very highest levels of government, there is
| interest and opportunities that exist for open source," Waugh said. "This
| doesn't help." Waugh was also disheartened when personal attacks were
| levelled at Standards Australia's Alistair Tegart over Microsoft's push to
| have its OOXML format accepted as an ISO standard.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Ignore-the-open-source-hot-heads-CIOs-told/0,339028227,339287376,00.htm
...Another person who tends not to care about briberies and kickbacks (e.g. in
OOXML) and other procurement irregularities, whether it's true or not. Also a
Novell/de Icaza apologist...
Related:
Governments slammed for anti-competitive software tendering practices
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| A leading Australian open source advocate has called for an end for to
| tender lock-outs of competitors to Microsoft, claiming the practice
| is costing Australian taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each
| year.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11496/53/
Feds revise IT procurement model
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| The federal government has launched version two of the SourceIT
| model contracts and user notes aimed at simplifying procurement of
| information technology 12 months after the first version.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=805606582&rid=-50
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
|
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|
| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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