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Re: OpenOffice.org in Australian Government

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____/ Gregory Shearman on Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 11:40 : \____

> On 2011-08-31, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 05:55 : \____
>>
>>> On 2011-08-30, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Tuesday 30 Aug 2011 13:54 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> On 2011-08-30, chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Gregory Shearman wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Microsoft executives regularly come to Australia making secret deals
>>>>>>>> with our government. It's disgusting. I wonder what sort of
>>>>>>>> "inducements" are offered to the decision-makers so that the Aus govt
>>>>>>>> remains a "microsoft shop".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This is corruption.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nah.  M$ has armies of lawyers to make sure that they generally stay
>>>>>> within the hairy edges of the law.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yeah, and no one is interested that Microsoft windows wins in the
>>>>> government sphere. In Australia it is taken as a given.
>>>>
>>>> Entryrism can be reversed by legal action.
>>> 
>>> This is a small country, mate. Microsoft's income is probably more than
>>> our GDP.
>>
>> I very much doubt it. Texas GDP is a trillion. How much lower can Aussie be?
> 
> A bit lower than that... 924 billion.

They must have lost quite a bit after Wall Street crashed in 2008.
 

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