That is a total freakin crock! Governments everywhere are losing their
minds wanting to control everything.

I hear MS quietly applauding in the background!

If this has any truth to it, you can be assured that somewhere someone
has greased someone's hand. There is no reason for any license issues
to ever come up for any reasons other than money. Our industrial base
has been moved over seas NOT by the government or some Bleeding heart
Liberals, it has been moved by the CAPITALISTS in their attempt to make
an extra dollar.

Why the hell any working man in the general populace would support these
greedy bastards is beyond me.

They might have problems with the EU with that, as both are member states and
the 2010 Digital Agenda for Europe[1] makes the EU's commitment to open
standards and platforms very, very clear

This is strange. The fact is that http://www.mai.gov.ro is running Fedora
with Apache. Absolutely strange.
On the other hand, universitites here accept papers and other written
documents in .odf format. They have legal documents online saved as .odt as well
as .doc.

I really must look up what the situation is in public administration.
Anyway, the websites of all the ministries and most of the banks are on
Linux.
No, I think it is typical Romanian turmoil and misinformation, not
deliberate disinformation what they are doing. On the other hand they seem to be
disinformed if they act like that. Linux everywhere on the server, Windows
everywhere on the Desktop.

Reading up on the Romanian article it would appear that this is in
respect of one project - their centralized criminal records system and
for some reason seem to think that open source software isn't as safe
as closed source. Confused thinking here methinks - being open or
closed has no bearing at all on how secure such as system will be,
it's down to implementation and internal security. The most secure
system in the world is only as safe as the people operating it !!

This sounds very suspicious, probably just a rumour. If true Ardell is
probably 100% correct, on both the greece and the outsourcing. All about the
money, the people be damn.