On 16/01/07, Jonathan Ben Avraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Amichai,
IMHO what we have to offer to make this happen is to pool our collective
intelligence (or lack thereof) to start writing public policy.
The market will not correct itself in the short run because of the cost
benefit factors that the spokesperson from the TA municipality so
correctly cites. So the only alternative is to lobby for a public policy
on open source, and we are the only people who can write that policy.
In order for the policy to have a chance of being accepted it probably has
to be drafted as a requirement to follow international standards (ODT, W3C
HTML, etc..) in order to ensure "equal access" to "all communities" or
some such politically fashionable language. The place to apply this policy
is probably with the Bank of Israel, the Ministry of Finance, and finally
the Knesset itself. Our ally in this is probably ISOC-IL and perhaps a few
"oddball" academics.
If any of you are interested in puting some time and effor into this
please contact me off list.
- yba
I'm replying on-list because I've got the time and resources to be
active online, but not in person. I'm a student (like Amichai and I'm
certain others) and that means that I've no free time. But if I can
use products or services that promote FLOSS, then I'm all for it.
Dotan Cohen
http://essentialinux.com/emulators.php
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/foss_floss_software.html
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