The New Zealand Herald: Sideshow Overshadows Real Issue

“It must have been a misguided attack of political correctness
that saw Microsoft invited to speak at the Government information
systems managers forum last Monday.

“The event was clearly identified as an open-source-software
seminar with the aim to ‘explore the opportunities and challenges’
of using the software ‘to provide a fit-for-purpose,
value-for-money solution.’

“Microsoft, built on proprietary software, is an arch-enemy of
open source so the only part it was ever likely to play was to
reiterate a well-worn list of negatives. What a waste of time.

“But it did provide some entertainment–so perhaps it was a
smart way to grab some media coverage from the two journalists
present…”

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