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Re: [PLUG] microsoft lost
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Here is my two cents. Do you want to drive your car in PA? Then you must use
the new State License plates. {Unless you want to pay more for a specialty
plate} I am in effect having to advertise for the State on my car a Government
web site running software from a know monopoly.
They are also looking into providing ecommerce through the State site. Who will
be allowed what will be banned.? Second Amendment rights, the software
etc....The whole deal seems like it is going to cost us {PA residents} money
somehow in a lawsuit to me too.
If the plates were to be a specialty item I would probably buy one but forcing
me to get one or pay more makes me annoyed. The whole State web site could be
run on an open source platform like Linux but they {the State} chose to spend
100's of thousands on Microsoft crap. This is our State and as far as I know
our State didn't look into too many other options for web server systems, they
saw Microsoft would give $100,000 and they jumped right in. From a Linux
standpoint, who has a $100,000 to throw in? I heard on the news tonight Bill
Gates personally lost over 12 BILLION dollars today. This in my opinion is what
the lawsuit is or was about and why it WILL cost PA money someday. They
{Microsoft} are so big they use thier size to make deals others can't compete
with.
Tom
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:14:34PM -0400, James Sulfare Jr wrote:
> > Remember our state is signing an agreement for M$ software?? I guess the
> > state is go to get sued also... what do ya think??
>
> I think you don't know what you're talking about. Why would PA get
> sued for something Microsoft did?
>
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