On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:39 -0600, s. keeling wrote: > 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. > Teh Lunix r00lez might convince some people. With the aid of Knoppix, or another LiveCD, it can make for a convincing argument IMO. It's converted one or two people in my experience. > 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. > >
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