On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:21 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="david">
> 
> > And while on the subject, is anyone lobbying Labor about open source
> > software for their education revolution?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > They are supposed to be fiscally responsible. It would be a great way for
> > them to save zillions.
> 
> That's the wrong way to look at it: They should spend the same amount of $,
> but deliver a fundamentally better solution that will *also* dramatically
> improve over time (feeding innovation and productivity benefits to the
> entire community) with such a clever investment. :-)
> 

well.. in a perfectly sane world I would agree with you....

in an economically rationalist, humans-as-economic-units world I'm not
so sure.






> - Jeff
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