On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:48, David Fitch wrote: > 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.
You do not want to talk to the politicians but the policy makers. You need to speak to the 'bean counters" ie Dept of Finance / Treasury / etc Even better Auditor General. -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst Australia Phone: +(61-2) 9360 5555 Fax +(61-2) 9361 0094 0414 618 425 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
