I don't think that's what they were getting at. I think what was
happening
here is that there getting the opinions of big tech on how important
broadband is
to the development of Eire and technology in general and how to move
forward without
bringing the squabbling likes of eircom etc. into the fray.
I've heard that this is getting the govt's full support so you'd never
know....
MP
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Murtagh [mailto:murtaghn at tcd.ie]
Sent: 20 March 2002 13:23
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [OT] More broadband promises . . .
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 12:59, John_White at dell.com wrote:
> "In an unusual move, the Irish government has appointed an advisory
> committee comprised of senior technology industry experts to supervise
> the broadband initiative, including the country managers for
> Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. No members were drawn from the
> telecommunications carriers"
That's insane! In what way is any Microsoft employee qualified to
supervise anything related to the Internet?
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