On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:44:09 +1000 eurk-dsl wrote: <snip>
> Does this mean it's a patriotic duty to use open source? maybe old news by now, but a bunch of new zealanders think so, and managed to present their case reasonably well: excerpt from http://www.openz.org/ " .. the New Zealand government and most of our businesses are dependent on a closed-source (proprietry) software product developed by a single foreign vendor. In addition to sending hundreds of millions of dollars in license fees to the US, we stifle our domestic IT industry, which can only participate on the fringes of a market wholly controlled by a single player whose business practices are being investigated by governments worldwide, notably in the US. " it turns out that employers of signatories to the letter are being told off by sucks in marketing within their orgs, who have been approached by microsoft: http://www.computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/91C74FE771E1CB0ACC256AE8000BEC46!opendocument also: http://www.opensourceschools.org/ maybe it's an idea to write a similar letter to our own governments? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
