[geeks] GAH! City of Austin Vs. Microsoft

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 20:21, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > Could be why the EU and the UK government is getting interested in

Seems that at least some of the UK government's concerns have something to do
with security; although the phrase "value for money" occurs in quite a few
places.

The German government has gone a step further and is funding a project to add
support for S/MIME to various MUAs.

> Gotta love that!  UK companies are much more amenable to to "not MS"
> than US companies.

I haven't had any exposure to US management to realise that, but my current
"ultimate" boss has recently started rambling about evaluating Linux for
server use. He's a bit slow ... we've been using Linux for years.

It would have been *BSD, but unfortunately 386BSD wouldn't run on the bizarre
386 I borrowed (wasn't the fault of 386BSD ... it was a very odd "PC").

> > BTW: Someone's flown a *small* plane into the 25th floor of an office
> > building in Milan. Could just be an accident.
>
> Apparently the pilot was having technical difficulty - he radioed the
> tower shortly before crashing.
> Just a small single-engine according to
> the reports I read.  Looks like an unfortunate accident.

A Piper something I believe. Most probably an accident, although the initial
reactions were a bit panicy ... the building is a regional government office.