ConsortiumInfo: The Transitive Property of Dots: What Price Massachusetts?

“While a quarter-page ad on the editorial page of the Boston
Globe doubtless costs far less than a $30 million in-kind software
donation, it’s a good bet that the ad titled ‘Working Together
Better by Design’ that appeared in yesterday’s Globe has something
to do with last week’s generous contribution. If so, then by the
transitive property of mathematics (which, as you will remember
from middle school, teaches that ‘if a = b, and b = c, then a =
c’), there’s a connection between that $30 million donation and the
ODF policy of the Commwonwealth’s Information Technology Division
(ITD).

“Certainly there’s nothing subtle about the goal of yesterday’s
ad…”

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