OT: Illinois Officials choose MS over Linux

[Fairlight]

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, GCC Consulting shouted:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fairlight
> > 
> > Confucius (Bill Campbell) say:
> > > 
> > > You have to remember that the primary objective of government 
> > > officials is to increase the size of government and their job 
> > > security.  Efficiency isn't a consideration as that might result in 
> > > fewer jobs and less payoffs to their supporters.
> > 
> > One has to wonder, though...
> > 
> > If a company or individual hired someone to do a job, and 
> > they milked it at great expense, the employer would have a 
> > fit and fire them.
> > 
> > Elected officials are basically employed by the people (in 
> > theory).  Why should it be any different there?
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Most people are using MS on their computer systems.  Therefore going with MS
> is safe.
> 
> This was like years ago, IT manager going/staying with IBM a safe decision.
> 
> So, if the public, elected officials thin MS is the best, why would an IT
> person buck this and chance loosing his job.
> 
> Or, could Gates and company be donating to the local school systems and the
> pols elections?

Kinda missing my point, Richard.

I wasn't actually commenting on MS, although my MS-related comment would
have been "one out of three ain't bad--it's predictably insecure".

I was responding more to Bill's comment about efficiency not being in the
best interests of the employee.

Take a system...let's say you have to do 'x' task, and get -so- good at
it that it takes 1/4 the time.  And you're on hourly.  Suddenly it's 4x
as hard to put food on the table, simply because you're good at what you
do.  That's an example where it doesn't pay to be efficient--there's no
incentive, as it undermines income security, basically.

Now extrapolate to government...

Bill was saying (I think) that there's no incentive for efficiency in
government.  I'm saying that, as the government's "employers", we the
public should be just as ticked at them as any employer who sees an
employee milking the job would be, because they're getting bilked.

That was my point.

mark->
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