[ILUG] Government use of OSS

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:06:54 Niall O Broin wrote:

> > Anyone got an estimate of how much the government might save
> > if it went over to open source software?
>
> Do we subtract the amount it'd lose by pissing off Microsoft so that
> they pulled out of Ireland, or is that a separate budget?

I agree that that is something to take into account.
But other countries seem to have gone along the OSS route.
Did MS pull out in those cases?