-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: > > On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: > >> Dear Carmel, >> >> I was quite saddened & extremely disappointed to see the student >> portal >> relying on proprietary software, when open-source equivalents would >> have >> been far more secure, maintainable cost-effective & educational. What >> "experts" advised the department on the deployment of this key >> infrastructure? Could you please forward my email to them and ask >> them >> to respond? I don't think their choice was justifiable, and >> contradicts >> the ideals of public education. >> >> I'm sure there are plenty of efficacious ways to spend the >> department's >> (read "our") money; lining the pockets of Mr Gates isn't one of them. > > What's this all about? > > > --SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
It's about this monstrosity: https://*portal*.*det*.*nsw*.edu.au Thank goodness I'm out of there now :) Regards, Alex ( Oh, btw, I fixed the signature if anyone noticed it threw up invalid - - that was an old GPG key that got corrupted before I could upload - dead hdd :( ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFgQMLg5/KyzD/6f0RAkkoAJ9TssTUIVO3bAvWMrQHEK5obVCU6QCZAR7q 0lY9uUefIN6aKsHxSgz0LVg= =X8g/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
