[Reader-list] India's West Bengal Plans Microsoft Tie-Up

[Patrice Riemens]

&^%#@*&*+%$*^@!!!!!!!

A long discussuin has raged on nettime-nl (Dutch language list) about the 
same sort of tie-up with The Hague municipality. Of course all politicos 
concerned were blissfully unawares of M$'s background, objectives, and 
modus operandi and behaved as if they were dealing with some sort of 
giant but responsible corporate citizen.

And all this as the French (and other, eg Mexico, Spain) authorities had
made a clear case for Open Source programming & Linux based systems -
against Micro$oft. Looks like they're just as clueless (or worse, and I
mean in *both* places...) in Writer's Building as they are inside the
'Residence's' Enzo Piano designed glass structure...

cheers, patrice & Diiiino!