What John said. Politicians are very good at telling you what they think you want to hear. I would check out what legislation have they thrown their weight behind in Parliament. What recommendations have they put their name to in select committees. Who funds their party (follow the money. Always follow the money).
Yuri On 19/05/05, John Carter wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > I just got an email reply from Bernie today. He is very receptive towards > > open source. A quote: "... open source is the real way to go. And it will > > happen some day." > > Careful how you ask a politician a question, they go nowhere, do nothing, > with out a wet finger in the wind. They Watch people. > > So if, at an Open Source organized meeting, wearing a Penguin label > button, you say, "I'm Carl from the Canterbury Linux User Group, what is > your opinion of Open Source and the American patent monopoly?" > > The answer is going to be a stream of words with the following warm > feelings embedded in the flow... "...Carl (Warm Smile)... Canterbury > (lovely place, sheep)... Linux, very good thing, sheep,... endangered Blue > Penguins, nice like sheep....America...motherhood apple pie mutton... > patent...... monopoly good game but lets just keep it a game, sheep..." > > Which politician is going to come to a Open Source set up meeting with > wearing Jack Boots and let his true colours fly? > > Rather look at campaign funding records or... > > Rather go to an Auckland Chamber of Commerce meeting, wear a dark > (expensive) suit and a Microsoft lapel button. > > Phrase your question like, "Hi, I'm representing a consortium of software > manufacturers and am concerned about the economic impact of NZ's patent > legislation..." -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before sending reply to this post.
