{"id":214,"date":"2006-07-18T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-07-18T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T15:18:10","slug":"politicians-may-forget-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/politicians-may-forget-we-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians may forget, we don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Christos Berelis, a minister in the previous Government wrote an article in a newspaper criticizing the current Government over it&#8217;s agreement-contract with Microsoft and for it&#8217;s lack of open-source use inside the Government. The article (in Greek) is called &#8220;On Microsoft&#8217;s Tank&#8221; (my own translation), and it&#8217;s posted here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enet.gr\/online\/online_hprint?q=%C2%E5%F1%E5%EB%DE%F2&#038;a=&#038;id=78380652\">Berelis&#8217; article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Berelis probably &#8220;forgets&#8221; what the government signed with microsoft when HE was a minister. Did he write any articles back then criticizing that agreement? Of course not! Here&#8217;s the agreement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressi.com\/int\/release\/77719.html\">Greek Government Announces Strategic Cooperation with Microsoft for the Security of IT systems<\/a>. What&#8217;s even worse is that the agreement of Mr. Berelis&#8217; Government regards <strong>Security<\/strong>. An IT section where microsoft has admitted is way behind it&#8217;s competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Enough with lies. Face the reality and admit your mistakes. If you want to criticize the current government you MUST first criticize yours and accept your mistakes and apologize for them. Until then you are just trying to harvest some lazy voters Mr. Berelis. <strong>ENOUGH<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Old post about this: <a href=\"http:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/linux-in-europe-vs-greece\/\">Linux in Europe vs Greece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Christos Berelis, a minister in the previous Government wrote an article in a newspaper criticizing the current Government over it&#8217;s agreement-contract with Microsoft and for it&#8217;s lack of open-source use inside the Government. The article (in Greek) is called &#8220;On Microsoft&#8217;s Tank&#8221; (my own translation), and it&#8217;s posted here Berelis&#8217; article. 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