This last week I forwarded px09683 and px09644 to one of the people who was working for a city government that got torpedoed by M$. There may have been additional, and probably illegal, activities in that town, but px09683 showed where the sudden price drop came from. The dates even matched. The realization of what really happened behind the scenes came like a splash of cold water to the face.
Nowadays that person is working at a national level and knows the deal. I don't expect they will allow any chance of being sucker punched by M$ again, not even with the assistance of GNOME/Mono...
Roy Schestowitz
2009-01-10 15:58:57
People should take a careful look at these lists and tables (with deployments named), then consider doing what Quebecans did in August.
Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives.
The lawsuit by Facil was lodged with the Quebec Superior Court on July 15 and made public on Wednesday. In it, the group says the provincial government has refused to entertain competing bids from all software providers, opting instead to supply public-sector departments with products bought from proprietary vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle Corp.
Very ill-prepared for the deteriorating situation caused by their clients' past behaviour towards many people, including high-profile figures who offered to testify
Last week IBM laid off almost 1,000 people in Confluent and the media didn't write anything about it, so don't expect anyone in what's left of the media to comment on Fedora's demise and silent layoffs at Red Hat
In an age when ~1,000 simultaneous layoffs aren't enough to receive any media coverage, what can we expect remaining publishers to tell us about Microsoft layoffs in 2026?
Is the "era of AI" an era when none of the media will mention over 800 layoffs? [...] There's a lesson here about the state of the contemporary media, not just IBM and bluewashing
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Needs Sunlight
2009-01-10 15:54:32
This last week I forwarded px09683 and px09644 to one of the people who was working for a city government that got torpedoed by M$. There may have been additional, and probably illegal, activities in that town, but px09683 showed where the sudden price drop came from. The dates even matched. The realization of what really happened behind the scenes came like a splash of cold water to the face.
Nowadays that person is working at a national level and knows the deal. I don't expect they will allow any chance of being sucker punched by M$ again, not even with the assistance of GNOME/Mono...
Roy Schestowitz
2009-01-10 15:58:57
Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software