Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:13:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> German Foreign Ministry starts open source blitzkreig
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>>| "The embassies in Japan and Korea have completely switched over, the embassy
>>| in Madrid has been exclusively using GNU/Linux since October last year," said
>>| Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid.
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>> http://www.itexaminer.com/german-foreign-ministry-starts-open-source-blitzkreig.aspx
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> Odd that it took them 4 years to do it.
Not odd at all.
They are just being careful and thinking about the needs of their users.
Unlike a certain consultant we all know, who does badly-planned cowboy
solutions and then blames his tools.
Mart
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"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
--- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.
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