Incoming from Jesse Kline: > First of all, I don't think it was ever suggested that we turn into a hippie > advocacy group, rather that you may want to find out how much your elected > officals know about and what they think about Linux and free software. IMHO > municipal politics is a load of crap anyways.
ACK. > > * do we know the IT / FLOSS strategy of either organization? Wouldn't it > > Find out. From what I know the city has converted lots of their old Unix systems > to Linux, but I don't think they have converted any of their Windows systems to ACK. > that the feds did a number of studies on the matter. This is probably just more > wasted tax dollars though, and I don't think anything good ever came of that. I > would have to suppose that they wouldn't have spend a billion dollars on the gun > regestry database if it was open source though. Bzzzzt. True, but off topic for municipal. > We are not here to promote IBM's, Novells, or anyone elses software solutions. > We're here to promote Linux and open source software. ACK. I've seen enough of, "Linux r00lez!" That's not going to convince even the simplest of Linux detractors. We need to fight this fight smarter, as in understand the audience, not tit for tat logic. I think the City is going about this very intelligently. Perhaps praise is in order, instead of advocacy? "Stay the course!" We can work on provincial and the feds after we win this one. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
