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In the US of A?

Well, sorry pal, but we here are not in the US of A. We are here in Western Australia, on the Indian Ocean Basin. Where I live is further away from New York than anywhere else on the planet, and still on land.

But even here the insidious reach of Microsoft and the rest of them makes itself felt, charging enormously inflated prices through consumer retail to an uneducated public lulled by the marketing spin, but providing no service whatsoever.

The result? Very large numbers of computers out of service for literally months on end while the few techies run around first getting the Windows OS up and running finally, and protected from viruses and other web denizons waiting for their prey, then at last finding a chance to train people on using the machine to start with.

But, guess what? They have no money left to pay us. Their entire budget was creamed off by Microsoft up front, and nothing offered in return apart from a shoddily installed and unprotected OS, with no other apps available to make the thing at all useful, or meet the need for which it was purchased to do.

The option? Change the business model. Hardware straight out of an online warehouse at cost, completely trimmed (Lite) W2K or XP or better Linux, then loaded with FREE Open Source apps while the client sits there watching.

The result is a completely expert system taylored to suit each particular user at one quarter the price, with every app they would dream of using, full training and ongoing technical support here locally.

We don't dislike Bill Gates especially. I mean, being 'worth' $180 billion is so unimaginable to most people he might as well be worth $1.80. He is just another American caricature of a human being, like the rest of them.

Neither do we care about the 'Foundation' supposedly giving some of the money back. We know where the money came from, and the threats and forced compliance that allowed it to be creamed off without offering anything much in return, as above.

Better are we to be allowed to build our own skills base, and provide a decent living to our own technical people commensurate with their training and expertise, to build our own IT economy in our own national interest than have our money sucked up through bloated consumer outlets straight back to the US.

US Law? Whatever. We do not live in that jurisdiction but our own, where we have a sovereign right to rule in our own interest not that of some external, alien nation.

All power to the Europeans. All wise and just rule to them, as we wish it for ourselves here, and as most of the other nations of this planet.

Americans, much better to get along with other people than try to dominate and intimidate them all the time, through all this trumped up 'legality'. When will you ever learn?

Gil

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