Re: [Sheflug] A new appp!

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted

> Powerpoint politics
> There's a new political party in Switzerland and its sole aim
> is to have PowerPoint outlawed. The Anti-PowerPoint Party
> says banning the application would allow people to get back
> to doing some real work. In the party's blog, it claims that
> so many government institutions use PowerPoint that about
> 11 per cent of more than 4.1 million employees have to waste
> time on presentations on a regular basis. The ban might happen.
> Citizens can force a referendum on any subject in Switzerland.
> All it takes is 100,000 voters to sign a petition demanding one.
> 
> URLs in the Zen article:
> 
> [techeye.net: "Switzerland demands Powerpoint's death"]:
> http://zen-mail.co.uk/IJT-HCUP-3BFWEB-6SFFZ-0/c.aspx

I've heard about this.  I'm not sure how seriously you should take it 
but when you consider that countries like Swizerland and Austria are 
running some large scale open source projects you begin to think that 
you should take it seriously.  In some ways Switzerland isn't at the 
centre stage of European politics and economic thought but in some 
ways it is.  Which leads you to think that it might or might not be a 
move in some direction.

-- 
Richard

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