US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
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Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#2And they can charge what they want
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#3Journalists have value to society and get “free passes”.
Isn’t that how it works? Not saying it should but that it does.
A whole lot of the economy is given a “free pass” because it keeps people from investigating government agents behavior and demanding change
The elders are trying to keep what they know alive as that as enriched them. This is just a generational Ponzi scheme. It’s all a bunch of 70+ year old racists and poorly educated post war, Cold War paranoids who huffed leaded gas fumes know; run hustles, cons, and protection rackets.
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#4Of course if another country does it, USA cries foul and tries to ban them from operating in USA.
It is government directed capitalism, just like other global superpowers like China.
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#5Here's a radical idea:
One government worker sending a document to another government worker should not involve a proprietary, for-profit data format.
With a hardcopy paper document this would obviously be unacceptable, but since digitization and software eating the world, we pay our fees to Microsoft and go about our merry way.
I'm middle-aged and tired, I'm not going to fight this fight anymore. Maybe some day legislators will grow fangs and start giving a shit about strategic interoperability. Probably not.
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#6Here's a radical idea: One government worker sending a document to another government worker should not involve a proprietary, for-profit data format. With a hardcopy paper document this would obviously be unacceptable, but since digitization and software eating the world, we pay our fees to Microsoft and go about our merry way. I'm middle-aged and tired, I'm not going to fight this fight anymore. Maybe some day legi…
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Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#7Here's a radical idea: One government worker sending a document to another government worker should not involve a proprietary, for-profit data format. With a hardcopy paper document this would obviously be unacceptable, but since digitization and software eating the world, we pay our fees to Microsoft and go about our merry way. I'm middle-aged and tired, I'm not going to fight this fight anymore. Maybe some day legi…
To a first approximation, every word processor can open Word documents including open source ones.
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#8Related:
On Microsoft, the U.S. Government Must Embrace the Stick
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#9It is a sad state of affairs that the most technologically advanced government in history is incapable of rolling its own in-house tech. Taxpayers deserve better.
Re: US government’s reliance on Microsoft means the company gets a free pass
#10Related: On Microsoft, the U.S. Government Must Embrace the Stick https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801670
The U.S. government is losing trust in Microsoft