From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:45721e90{at}w3.nls.net...
> mike wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:44:43 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> just wondering -
>>>
>>> With Vista's advanced kill switch it seems possible that a government
>>> entity
>>> could obtain an order for Microsoft to kill a specific range of
>>> licenses.
>>> Which opens the question - Why would any government outside the U.S.
>>> allow
>>> Vista to be used by any major ( or not so major ) institution?
>>>
>>
>> See the other message I just posted.
>>
>>  /m
>
> Why do you think so many governments are going open source?
>
> e.g.
>
>
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=french+parliam
ent+open+source&btnG=Search+News
>
> Adam

Hopefully the Vista/Office 2007  kill switch will kill a nice chunk of
Microsoft's revenue.

Vista - the infinite validation machine?

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