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On Monday 17 September 2007 11:37, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:20:49AM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > > On Monday 17 September 2007 09:24, Neil Williams wrote: > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6998272.stm > > > > > > "Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; > > > $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running > > > competition dispute. > > > > > > The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft > > > had abused its dominant market position. > > > > > > A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out > > > rivals in server software and products such as media players. > > > > > > Microsoft has two months to appeal at the European Court of Justice." > > > > > > So that's a given then. How much longer can the lawyers drag this out? > > > > > > Come on MS, £343m is peanuts - Bill probably has that much down the > > > back of the sofa. When the NHS has just spent £5bn on a Windows-based > > > authentication system that cannot cope with the existing (pilot-stage) > > > demand of maybe 0.5% of the expected workload, £343m is truly > > > inconsequential. > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can apply for these NHS contracts - I guess > > all you have to do is make up a figure and then get a contract lawyer to > > pull holes in the agreement and you can be rich! > > Oh hang on - I can actually write software - I guess that will exclude > > me! > > Not at all. Being actually able to program means you can double your > fee. Wow - so £10Billion for sticking in LDAP and a browser front end to manage it , and then getting w2k3servers (?) to read from it - or have they managed to disable that feature? So thats, what, three months work drunk and maybe 32 high end PC's around the country for redundancy ? Oh and then theres interfacing with management...now I'm feeling its not worth the money. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html