On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:00:02PM +1000, eurk-dsl wrote: > Thus spake David Fitch: > >it doesn't really matter who owes who how much money, it's all > > just imaginery money (what are they going to do? foreclose on > > the country?) > > I beg to differ: > The world needs trade, but not for products that have viable alternatives.
that's not really different to my view > 'Balance of Trade' which affects the wealth of a nation is a simple > formula: > export$ - import$ yeah I know, but I was trying to say that it doesn't matter (unless you're an economist/accountant I guess). Anyway perhaps I'm just showing my complete lack of interest (hence knowledge) about these things, I just find it impossible to get excited or worried about things like balance of trade and something account deficits etc. But as I said before, I agree the govt should be using OSS, or at the very least insisting on only using software compliant with common open standards (eg. the tax office making people use M$ shit for lodging electronic returns is a prime example). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
