[Logseman]

Kali Yuga, let's start from the beginning: European Parliament Members do not need (understanding it as "requisite of their jobs") a device which has been conceived as a media consumption tablet, and not as a work interface. In case they want to do some work (which I doubt), they'll need the ability to actually add some text input, a task for which they have smartphones and recently-acquired HP laptops, both by the taxpayer.

The open source thing was not meant as an attack to the iPad, but as an attack towards an organisation which should strive to spare some costs to its stakeholders through the usage of OSS and which instead keeps putting more and more cash in the hands of Big Business.