Phil Da Lick! <phil_the_lick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
>
> Terry Porter wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
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>>> Microsoft whole-of-government deal sealed
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | THE federal Government hopes to save at least $15 million per annum over
>>> | four years through a new whole-of-government arrangement with Microsoft
>>> | Australia.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25028754-15306,00.html
>>>
>>> This is like an MOU. It's all secret.
>>>
>>> They tried to talk about how much they "save", not how much taxpayers'
>>> money is "spent" paying for lock-in from a criminal corporation that
>>> bribes, bullies, blackmails and sabotages.
>>>
>>
>> It's typical of how the govt here is tied into Microsoft, who have a paid
>> lobbyist in Canberra.
>>
>> " hopes to save at least $15 million per annum" says nothing of what they
>> spent to actually clinch this lockin deal with Microsoft.
>>
>> Not that the govt care, it's not like they are spending their own hard
>> earned money.
>>
>
> Ha! They're amatuers. Try living over here, Gordon Brown is throwing tax
> payers' money around like a drunken sailor in the whorehouse.
Oh, you mean he's sober, then? :-)
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