Oh, sorry then. Wrong complaint timing. :-)

True, but that would make it a lot easier for people to call me a troll. :-)

P.S.: I am not a troll.

I see the point.

I thought they had already decided not to run windows and are now reconsidering the decision.

Still, I guess they will open up themselves to brutally more critics should they actually go with MS.

So, basically, I am very curious about the technical reasons which led the Australian government into considering this option.

Personally, I can see no reason for one to pay money for an architechture/platform depedent, time/space inefficient, closed operational system with no guarantees of freedom from malicious software even from the own vendor while one is next to an architechture independent, extremely efficient and open source costless alternative... except perhaps for either ignorance or corruption or both. Sadly, none of those are actually technical reasons...

That said, I think making the deal with MS going against all technical evidence should constitute a public crime just like it probably would were things out of the IT world.

By the way, MS offering to lower prices for school children often remembers me of a drug dealer selling the first handful of drugs for a low price to an unaddicted youngster.