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[ILUG] Open source software in Irish hospitals?

[ILUG] Open source software in Irish hospitals?

fuzzbucket fuzzbucket at eircom.net
Thu Apr 22 22:28:27 IST 2004


ilug at another.com wrote:
> 
> I've heard that they no longer run the opensource version of 
> Staroffice, and buy the pay for version from Sun at a knocked down
> price in return for PR, and their faith in opensource desktop
> application is such that they might consider touching OpenOffice if
> they ever find one of them ten foot poles.
> 

[...snip FUD...]

Seriously now, who are you working for? If someone put their name to
this I might have been willing to give it a second's credence but even
in my current half cut, soft-headed, susceptible state I can see through
it's throwaway mail account sheen and straw-man argument veneer.

Thanks for keeping my attention long enough to read drop-jawed all the
way to the end and the gut-laugh climax that ensued.



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