Lets be honest here, pollies rairly do anything thats not designed to make them look good in the majorities eyes..
sad statement of fact, but nontheless true.. Billybob gates is world known and as far as the pollies known, in a good way. (after all, what do pollies know?) as the one of the 'true' success stories of this century.. so they think it makes good sense to be seen rubbing sholders with him.. (I'd be worried about catching something :-) sad but true.. since open source tends to have lots of people who are known within for great things, they are none known as well as billy by the general public,, even linus himself wouldn't be as well known by a good majority.. but he 'might' get a pm visit if he dropped in.. just because he has much more public profile then say 'larry wall' or one of the other legends. But, if Microsnot start losing polularity or the are publically condemned and prosecuted by the US government (successfully) is possible that billys popularity might change to something else.. I read that its quiet possibly that M$'s tactics with stock option could end up seriously damaging the US economy.. if that happens, (and it probably won't because the government would help them out mostly to keep it quiet as it reveals alot about their own stupidity for allowing it to go on for so long.)as well as the economy probs themself.. but IF it happens, being seen with gatey might be a death knoll for a pollie wouldn't that be great??? just a rave :-) regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2002 2:19 PM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$ On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:17, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Tony has been sucking up to Microsoft for a while now. The last time Bill Gates > visited, he was treated like royalty, and Tony was even at the product launch of > Office XP as part of his election campaign. Apparently, the gateway.gov.uk site, > which is part of the e-government initiative to put all government services > online, is fully _owned_ by Microsoft, intellectual property and all. When it > was first set up, all users of 'alternative' (read: non-IE) browsers were locked > out, and it took heavy complaining to change it. After the site was set up, MS > released an advertisement featuring the government people behind the project > (including an MP or two), who said things like "I will always use Microsoft". > > Not that the Australian government is much better. Prime Minister John Howard > bent over backwards to meet with Bill Gates the last time he was here, yet he > totally ignored Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison when they visited. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > Very interesting information. Depressing, but interesting. Thanks, Srid! LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ��������������������������������������������������� __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
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