OOPS, wrong country

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) [mailto:Jarvisb at timken.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 21 december 2001 15:12
> To: 'squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org'
> Subject: RE: [rant] owner of squeak
> 
> 
> I'm confused.  Richard said that the government of New 
> Zealand had just
> spent $10 million buying copies of Windows XP.  I posted a link to an
> article about a recently-disclosed security flaw in XP.  How 
> did we get from
> there to voting for presidents?
> 
> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl
> > [mailto:G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl]
> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:59 AM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: RE: [rant] owner of squeak
> > 
> > 
> > Did You not vote for a new president?
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) [mailto:Jarvisb at timken.com]
> > > Sent: vrijdag 21 december 2001 14:44
> > > To: 'squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org'
> > > Subject: RE: [rant] owner of squeak
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > From: Richard A. O'Keefe [mailto:ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz]
> > > > 
> > > > I'm rather upset that our government spent 10 million 
> > dollars buying
> > > > Windows XP and related software for schools when (a) a lot 
> > > of schools
> > > > here have Macintoshes, and (b) Linux and StarOffice are 
> > > > available free,
> > > > gratis, and for nothing.  Doubtless someone who wants to 
> > boycott Sun
> > > > would be happy that the "owners" of StarOffice "lost a 
> > > sale", but they
> > > > wouldn't have got any money for it, and haven't really 
> > > "lost" a cent.
> > > > (StarOffice is now OpenOffice.)
> > > 
> > > Here's a story I saw yesterday about XP:
> > > 
> > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7098-2001Dec20.html
> 
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