On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:17:38 -0800 Tom Cloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> You guys are missing something here. I don't have the link, but I > read a news report on this (in The Guardian perhaps) which said that > what had happened was that has been a group of conservatives in city > government who have been opposed to the switch to opensource from the > start have assumed leadership in the government. This change appears > to be happening because they are now calling the shots. > > Tom yes and the register says there's a faction claiming the cost issues are just from bad IT management and this is an ass-covering exercise. d > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to > make sense of > what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be > curious. And > however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do > and succeed > at. It matters that you don't just give up. ~ Steven Hawking > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Tom Cloyd, MS MA LMHC (WA) > Psychotherapist (psychological trauma, dissociative disorders) > Spokane, Washington, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332 > << [email protected] >> (email) > << TomCloyd.com >> (website) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If they pay more taxes to the city, then there might be a deal to > > not ask for a "tax discount" if the city uses M$ products. > > > > In my city and county [in USA] a big reason we get business is due > > to the governments involved will give then some reduced taxes, or > > tax free, for a number of years. They do this to help the area > > employ more people who need the type of work offered. Now we have > > an arena that needs a new owner or we loose a lot of events along > > with our hockey teem. The new buyer wants the city and county to > > replace the "ice plant" at a cost of 1.5 million dollars or it is > > no deal. > > > > So if M$ moves into the city, there has to be some advantage to M$, > > since I bet that the property taxes are higher than the old > > location. > > > > > > On 02/17/2017 09:43 AM, H. Stoellinger wrote: > > > >> Well, from what I know, Microsoft moved offices from the area > >> outside Munich into the town. > >> Whether this had an influence on the decision of the city council? > >> God only knows;-)... > >> > >> Am 2017-02-17 um 15:25 schrieb M Henri Day: > >> > >>> 2017-02-17 12:21 GMT+01:00 message <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> Is there a trail of money between m$ and munich? > >>>> > >>>> https://diasp.eu/posts/5166693 > >>>> > >>> > >>> I know of no evidence, but if one is adept at avoiding taxes, > >>> money can be > >>> saved to use for other purposes : > >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/10/how- > >>> microsoft-avoided-billions-in-taxes-and-what-the-gop-says- > >>> theyll-do-about-it/.. > >>> .. > >>> > >>> Henri > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns > > ubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: > > http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent > > to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. ----- Ursula Le Guin -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
