On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:43 +0100, Donald Williams wrote: > I read the comments on OS in Welsh schools and certainly agree with > backing up/advising/supporting those efforts at local level - but it > seems to me that the issue of "binding-in-to-Microsoft" is so well > embedded and all the way down from No 10 (and you can't get much lower > than that!) that it might be politically useful (pragmatically, not > necessarily philosophically!) to get the Greens on board sufficiently to > make contesting it an election issue - a national one. > > I have, though, spent many years scrapping in the "community" world and > am extremely wary of the do-goody, chinese-water-torture technique. > Someone's got to get a bit cross. Angry even? > > Geographically-concentrated groups (LondonLUG?) might be able/want to > mount a "boycott microsoft" campaign at particular sites/shops - in > Tottenham Court Road, inter alia
Why nor boycott the Government for being anti-FOSS and mismanaging IT in the public sector? Plenty of evidence. Target a marginal seat of some minister or other in the NHS and Education. There is an election coming up with a Government with a dwindling majority. Directly targeting politicians at the ballot box is more likely to have an effect than anti-MS tactics. Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
