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Canadians are playing defensive. They really need to go on the offensive.

  • Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Office. Use LibreOffice.

  • Get all Government departments and Crown Corporations to cancel Microsoft Windows. Use Linux.

  • Ban all foreign linked consulting firms (McKinsey, Bain) from obtaining any government contract.

  • Announce a $100 million Canadian fund to support opensource software like Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive, Inkscape. Time to take down Adobe.

  • Cancel the F-35. Buy old F-16s instead. It’s better to have 5 planes that fly than one expensive plane that doesn’t work.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Cancel all Microsoft Office contracts. Cancel all Microsoft Windows contracts. Switch all government departments and Crown corporations to Linux.

    Yeah, this is the national government that can’t even hire someone else to make an app effectively. Decades of cutting “wasteful bureaucracy” in the IT field has left them a sitting duck. They need to build that back, and then maybe we can discuss it in 10 years.

    Announce $100 million fund to support Open Source software such as Krita, Gimp, Inkscape. Time to assassinate Adobe.

    Bruh, we don’t even know how we’re going to pay for the things we already have as the US implodes our economy. And we have a housing crisis.

    Ban all government departments from using foreign consulting firms. No more McKinsey or Bain.

    More doable, although I’d go for more avoid than totally ban. Absolutes like that tend to run up against the nuance of whatever small procurement.

    Cancel all F-35 jet orders. It’s better to have 5 F-16 than 1 plane that can’t fly.

    We already paid.

    Put all the top 50 executives from Fox News on a no-travel list. Put their spouses on the list.

    A bit arbitrary (why not the Trumps themselves?) but sure.

    Do they even have 50 top-level executives, though?