Re: Re: The ATO and Linux - new development (at last)

Rick Miles <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody 
says!
<snip>
> Well the link was short lived, the powers that be in the ATO were
> irritated by the interest in the link, and have pulled the file.  
<snip> 
This seems a rather incomplete reason. Why were they ("the powers that be") 
irritated by interest in the link. 

Did they invest resources in developing the package so that it could then be 
witheld from use? 

Maybe they only did it to prove that nobody would be interested in downloading 
it if it was made available. Alas, people were interested and it it had to be 
pulled.

Maybe it slipped under the radar of someone involved in IT procurement and in 
the pocket of MS. Once the masters brought it to his/her attention and 
threatened to pull next month's tickets to Fiji, it was pulled.

Then again, maybe it was make work for someone in IT who was bad  and had 
after hours detention. It was never intended to see the light of day.

I wonder if this will ever get to mainstream media. After the Customs software 
fiasco I would guess no spin is the preference.

-- 
Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

Written on Sweetmorn, the 24th of The Aftermath, 3171 
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