[nzlug] Idea...

[cr]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 16:56, Simon Bridge wrote:
> Part of the license fee saving on changing to open standards, in govt,
> can go to a bonus in the paypackets of everyone in the department...

But you see, paying staff more money = Bad Thing.    It will only Set 
Precedents and encourage them to demand even more.   

Whereas paying Bill Gates - errm, sorry, the Designated IT Service Provider - 
more money is a Good Thing, it indicates that the software you're buying 
_must_ be extra good quality.   So Productivity MUST have gone up, and 
figures will be fudged as necessary to prove it.

(Umm, this doesn't apply specifically to government departments, it applies to 
_all_ organisations that are big enough to have IT Managers and Human 
Resources Managers and Purchasing Managers and suits and managedroids up the 
wazoo...   anywhere big enough that the people doing the buying don't feel 
it's their own paypackets they're spending).

cr