Comments on: The power of Twitter http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/02/power-of-twitter.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Midlands LibDem http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/02/power-of-twitter.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1649 Midlands LibDem Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:36:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=2071#comment-1649 I do hope that as Chair of the Technology Advisory Board, you are not going to be another politician seduced into believing that Microsoft is the answer to all technological advancement. <br/><br/>There really does need to be a politician who is well versed in IT to explore the role of Open Source software and the benefits, not least financial it can bring to our economy. Wider use of more secure operating systems would eliminate much of the waste caused by the various viruses, worms etc.<br/><br/>We need to break away from dependency on MS software and endless licence fees being sucked out of public budgets. I do hope that as Chair of the Technology Advisory Board, you are not going to be another politician seduced into believing that Microsoft is the answer to all technological advancement.

There really does need to be a politician who is well versed in IT to explore the role of Open Source software and the benefits, not least financial it can bring to our economy. Wider use of more secure operating systems would eliminate much of the waste caused by the various viruses, worms etc.

We need to break away from dependency on MS software and endless licence fees being sucked out of public budgets.

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