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Only Able to Use Windows? You're Fired

posted by n1 on Monday April 21 2014, @02:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the survival-of-the-fittest dept.

gewg_ writes:

It seems likely that everyone here has heard the old saw "No one ever got fired for buying|using Microsoft". Well, times change.
The government of the Italian province of South Tyrol wants to save money and, noting Munich's savings of over 10 million euros, it sees Free Software as a solution. (The freedom thing isn't lost on them either.)

Governor Arno Kompatscher says "We've started to review our license costs. If there are free and open source alternatives, and where the costs and risks of changing are justified, we will switch to these." The new policy is meant to reduce IT costs. Should this fail, the region must resort to reduce its workforce, in order to balance the region's budget.

Did you catch the nuance? If you are a gov't employee and they can't change software because you aren't adaptable enough to use something other than Windows, you can plan on being the first one out the door. Hat tip to Robert Pogson for just the right spin on this story.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 21 2014, @03:49AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday April 21 2014, @03:49AM (#33840) Journal

    winning the resume cattle call

    Mixed metaphors, or semaphore? Resume pool, OK, that could be a gamble. But call, for a position, as in a "casting call"? However, I totally lose it with "cattle call". This is a call to all cattle, as in "calling all cattle, we are going to be moving out in five minutes!" Not a call to select which cattle qualify to become Microsoft meat patties! Business, Theatre, and Cowboys, all in one short phrase. My hat is of to you, most excellent Soylenter!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @02:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 21 2014, @02:08PM (#33959)

    ...?

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cattle+call [thefreedictionary.com]

    "An audition in which a large number of often inexperienced actors or performers try out."

    The poster's mixing metaphors but not that badly.