Now FEMA Is Insisting On Windows

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Wed Sep 7 14:02:46 EDT 2005


all governments are run by the top 300 corperate heads in the world and have a
desire to be managed by those out to make a buck.  Yet they say outsourcing
saves money?  </rant>
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From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Now FEMA Is Insisting On Windows


>
> Well, when you live in an "ownership society" you can be sure that
> somebody owns the government.
>
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:51:40AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Not that this is by any means the most serious problem over at the
> > Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but it's bad enough:
> >
> > http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/fema_to_mac_linux_us.html
> >
> > As someone there points out, this requirement for MS IE 6 is very likely
> > also a violation of Federal law--the Sec. 508 requirements of PL
> > 105-220:
> >
> > http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508law.html
> >
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