in an unlikely place, a disturbing hint that the bush administration (that paragon of clear thinking and logical analysis) may inadvertantly give linux a rough ride at various levels of U.S. government.
in a recent piece by journalist david broder: http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/011403E.broder.bigger.htm broder writes how the bushies have reneged on pretty much everything they ever promised in terms of minimizing goernment, getting government off the backs of the people, respecting states rights, blah, blah. partway down broder's piece, he writes of the federal govt's desire to have information systems interoperate, so they can share information, and that at least one state governor is worried about this since it suggests that the feds might end up dictating "what equipment local sheriffs or police chiefs must install and what portion of the data they must share," and that an important property is interoperability between federal, state and local IT systems. this raises the ugly possibility that, if the federal govt standardizes on microsoft software and, more critically, MS formats and protocols, state agencies may have no choice but to follow suit. if they don't, homeland security director (and impotent admin mouthpiece) tom ridge suggests that a future Congress may punish them by, say, withholding federal highway funds. i don't like where this is going. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
