Value for Money, Fit for Purpose was Re: [LINK] ACS calls forgovernment open source mandate

[MacIntosh, Ian]

I'll hammer any more of these poor jokes and drill the jokers, so go
ahead and socket to me ;-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Lister [mailto:tal at pacific.net.au] 
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2004 4:17 PM
To: The Link Institute
Subject: RE: Value for Money, Fit for Purpose was Re: [LINK] ACS calls
forgovernment open source mandate

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:53, Chirgwin, Richard wrote:
> > > Would you pay the same price to "buy" a screwdriver you could 
> > > use every day as 
> > > one you could only use every second day?  This is not rocket
science.
> > 
> > SCO ACQUIRES STANLEY
> > 
> > In a move which has stunned the hardware market, software giant SCO
has
> > acquired leading tool-maker Stanley.
> 
> Well, now we can all get properly screwed.

... i'm going to make a bolt for the door.

Tim Lister
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