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When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice. Which is what the government of the Australian state of Queensland has done.

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lozz

3 years 44 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago

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Poor cows

Why do I think that the QLD government is about to get invaded by a Golden Horde of Microsoft lobbyists, cajoling, pleading, bribing, threatening, lying, and distorting every truth previously known to mankind?

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dave

3 years 44 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago

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Because you are very cynical

...but most likely also very accurate. :)

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lozz

3 years 44 weeks 21 hours 18 min ago

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Cynical?

Yet another thing to blame M$ for.

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