On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:09:52AM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: > If just the government used free software / open source the total savings we > be in the order of $15 billion per year. > > Or to use other measures a brand new major teaching hospital in each capital > city (6 x $1.5 billion) + $1 billion for higher education + $1 billion odd > for land degradation / salinity + 1 billion for child care + a few billion > for tax cuts / higher pensions. .... > 1. Profits - Yes, it is much cheaper > 2. Environmental - Yes, it improves the solutions for other people including > poor people > 3. People - Yes - Better educated as they can see the products (source)
Yes, I was thinking of this on the weekend when I was looking at the Greens Policy's on their pages at http://www.greens.org.au (Click on Policies at the top of the page, there are 7 policies in total) I was surprised to see that they were generated with M$ Frontpage. <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> They of all the parties woud be most receptive to open source. Has anyone approached them about this I wonder. They would need a good grounding in the theory of open source and its impact with real world companies. It would fit in though with their other policies and their aims. Mike -- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
