| Hey look! A poorly named organization! |
 Hey look! A poorly named organization!
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Oct. 13th, 2005 @ 02:51 pm 
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How can locking out a lock in cost more than getting locked into an expensive product? Especially when the expensive product has an upgrade cycle that is now begining to lose support for it's older products, not because they can't support the older format, but because they wont. They want you to upgrade.
The press release also makes some really stupid statements:
“It is bad procurement policy for any state to unilaterally lock itself into one set of technologies,” CAGW President Tom Schatz said.
Oh yeah? So you're saying moving from one ultra locked in set of technologies to an open standard that is supported by multiple technology vendors that technicaly doesn't "lock" you into anything is getting locked in? Why did I hear George Carlins voice in my mind when I reread that line?
“Agencies should be able to accept bids from any company that can provide the desired product or service. Government earns the best value for taxpayer dollars through a competitive, transparent, and accountable bidding process.”
I agree. I hearby submit my bid. I will provide the state of Massachusetts with unlimited copies of OpenOffice.org, and will also provide years upon years of upgrades and patches. I will make these copies, upgrades, and patches available via download from http://www.openoffice.org I submit this bid with the requested payment of $0.00. Should your agencies need my help in installing or downloading said patches outside of their normal IT departments I make my labor available at $40 (to me) an hour plus cost of transportation and lodging. Applications for my services are available at my employers website, the state may negotiate an actual bill rate with them.
“By rushing to establish such an arbitrary preference, the Romney administration is undermining free market competition and doing so without any serious consideration of the cost to taxpayers,” Schatz added.
arbitrary
ar·bi·trar·y adj.
1. Determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle: stopped at the first motel we passed, an arbitrary choice.
2. Based on or subject to individual judgment or preference: The diet imposes overall calorie limits, but daily menus are arbitrary.
3. Established by a court or judge rather than by a specific law or statute: an arbitrary penalty.
4. Not limited by law; despotic: the arbitrary rule of a dictator.
My guess is it was arbitrary decisions by many MS owned CEOs and their pet politicians that sort of arbitrarily got us stuck in this little "have to have office" to work with us bind to begin with. Could it be that since your "well named" organization has ties to Microsoft you're trying to put out FUD to secure your positions? Oh lets see who else you have ties to Staples, and CompUSA. What do you know? They sell MS Office products. I guess they wouldn't mind the loss of millions in sales because a free and open document format takes off.
This shit's getting old. You don't know how tired I am of the MS FUD faries destroying good products or worse.
Maybe they're just worried about all those anti-American terrorist softwares taking over.
I've got work to do, end of rant for now.Mood:  annoyed |
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