There is already an embargo on M$ bashing on this list (quite rightly) ..
but this letter goes well beyond that, and gets to the heart of why ANY
government should be using free software.
Is there anyone amongst our beloved leaders who would have the nouse to
actually understand this extremely well reasoned letter?
Is it worth actually passing it on to them? Perhaps the state libs and
labour might be worth sending it to, although I think the current crop of
fed.libs are showing a propensity to hiding the truth, so they wouldn't
help much....
David.
On Sun, 5 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The translated letter from the Peruvian congressman is about 10 pages
> long, but it is a work of art. *Well* worth reading. In it, he tears
> apart Microsoft's opposition to the proposed law for the Peruvian
> government to use only free (as in speech) software.
>
> Beautiful.
>
> luke
>
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>
> Free Software Law in Peruvian Congress
>
> Posted by michael on Saturday May 04, @06:16PM from the
> god-bless-the-grass dept. An Anonymous Coward writes "There is a story
> on oreillynet.com (http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1364)
> on the response by a Peruvian Congressman to Microsoft's
> letter opposing a proposed Free Software Law. Here's the translated letter
> (http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html) and this is the original
> (Spanish? http://www.gnu.org.pe/mscarta.html) letter that Microsoft submitted
> in response to the proposed law (Spanish? http://www.gnu.org.pe/proleyap.html).
> It's always cool to see governments trying to enact these kinds of laws and
> watch the Microsoft backlash against them :).
>
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