On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:11, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Mon, 18 Nov: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote about "Ynet published our reponse to >Mr. Skup": > > > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2255115,00.html > > > > M.K. Ronen also replied to Skup: see > > http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2255774,00.html > > Skop or Scop I think. not Skup.
How's that for a laugh - someone in my family claims I'm actually related to this guy in some obscure way. > I believe Ronen is either trying a provocative menuver here' or being a > little manipulated, because her law is both bad for the government, bad > for the citizens, anti-democratic, and makes very little technical > sense, not to mention screwes many more companies other than mickeysoft. > I responded to her in Ynet, but it will probably drown in a sea of > flames again. > I have no idea what she's trying to do or who is leading her (<cough>Sun</cough>) but I don't think I like her suggestion very much. When we were in the Knesset Arie Skop brought some guy from some government agency that said he is using many kinds of software (he was a little confused about what Open/Free Software was but that's beside the point) and that he takes no side in the argument but that he doesn't want any non technical people interfering with his technical decisions and I think that to a large extent he is right. Moreover, forcing anyone to use Free Software is, IMHO, an oxymoron. Free Software was supposed to keep the rights of the users and he is a user too. It is true though that we shouldn't let the decision of the one dictate the choice to the many. I thing the proposal we brought up caught the right balance there. Having said that, there is some advantage to having this wild out proposal being flung. it serves to make *us* look like the "sane option". Microsoft might end up supporting the proposal to keep Ronen's proposal at bay. Well, I can dream, can't I? ;-) Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Denial really is a river in Eygept." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
