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

Rick Miles wrote:
> [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.

Have they got that working yet?