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Well I'm happy that the mailing is alive....... I can't argue from the technical point of view of computers or software issues as I'm not an expert. But I do have some personal experience with lawyers. Any way, in any issue it's the court which has the final say no matter what other people say! Well, the EU has been finding microsoft guilty on various accounts. Please do check WHY microsoft was found guilty and what are the consequences for Malta now being part of the EU. In a few short words, any government cannot tie itself to a particular software with the exclusion of others!!!!!! If the government does not pay attention to our argument he will soon be FINED by the EU !!!!!!! The taxes you pay will obviously go for this blunder!!!! Secondly, I presume that all of you work in the private sector. So I presume a very important difference might NOT have been noticed. We are speaking about government property. Hence all citizens have the RIGHT to know what's going on. Before they accuse me, I have the right to know what went behind closed doors between Mitts and Microsoft. I was astonished that not even our European Parliament representative knows about it!!!! When we discuss government things it's not a private issue. Why did the government go for microsoft in the first place? He is using the money paid by TAXES, not like a private company which is more free in this aspect. Secondly, if the teacher, here we are not speaking about an employee in a private company) according to the New curriculum (maybe some of you are not aware of some important changes in the education sector as they have been bombarded with negative results such as the Cospicua one!!), has to be more investigative and critical in his approach. Now how can he be of a good example when he himself is tied to just one OS? Is not this the old concept of indoctrination ? What's so funny is that when we have government employees who simply heat their seat all day it's ok, but if somebody is using the PC for the good of the students, then we come down with all force. Well I have experience already when I had PQ (parliamentary question). I was the only teacher who went out of the syllabus because I had nearly illiterate children. So I did what the common sense what have told you too: teach them the alphabet so at least they would learn letters. Well a parliamentary person asked (PQ: another big difference from the private sector, you can't have PQs!!) why I was teaching them elementary things in year 6 !!!!! A final thought: How can I be a security threat when he constantly monitors every step that I make with my PC? --
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