On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +1000, David wrote: > Is this relevant for SLUG? YES. > > If we don't advocate a sensible alternative.. who will? OSS is a > commodity, and carries with it a viable industry.. .support, installation, > new software (far easier than under a proprietry model). Tell the stupid > politicians now... if you don't do it at election time, when CAN you do > it? They may not get the message this time, but maybe by next time the > penny will drop. > > After all, the Liberals are making television commercials about Cheryl's > $5000 stamp duty. Why not inform them about billions of dollars of > software licences?
voting for the liberals is completely out while bloody Dick Alston the minister against IT (and anything technical or innovative) is hanging around. Labor has the odd intelligent one like Kate Lundy but on the whole are no better. Democrats I have no idea what their position/ideas are on IT. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
