In what sounds like the worst meeting ever, the US State Department’s Town Hall Meeting to Announce the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) (that’s really what it’s called), a State Department staff member asked this question:
Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was surprised that State doesn’t use this browser. It was approved for the entire intelligence community, so I don’t understand why State can’t use it. It’s a much safer program. Thank you. (Applause.)
Senator Clinton responded “Well, apparently, there’s a lot of support for this suggestion. (Laughter.) I don’t know the answer.” and passed the question on to under secretary Patrick F. Kennedy.
UNDER SECRETARY KENNEDY: The answer is at the moment, it’s an expense question. We can —
QUESTION: It’s free. (Laughter.)
The discussion went on to cover how it’s not actually free to switch a major application in a large organization, which is fair enough.
Wow !
Actually in my country Ms has so much power over the elites that a thing like that is most likely to never happen…