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.
You are, broadly, correct. But I don't think Bernie was greasing. I had emailed him the following link: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1483969,00.html
as he is the education spokesman for United Future.
His reply, which included the quote above (Where John quotes me quoting Bernie) began with the following: "I totally agree! Get rid of Microsoft. It is only successful because of marketing and being a bully-monopoly!"
This degree of certainty and plain speaking is rare in a politician, and caught me somewhat by surprise.
In the interests of full disclosure, I am a (rather inactive) member of United Future.
Cheers, Carl.
