[plug] SA open source bill

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:47, Denis Brown wrote:
> Waaayyy back at 19:48 17/06/2003 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:


Denis,

Could you please scan the letter for us to see and read.

Thanks,

Chris 


> Silly me.   I e-mailed The Hon. Mike Rann expressing appreciation for his 
> government's consideration of Open Source.   That was on the 17th 
> June.   Now a full month later I have a written - as in postal mail - 
> reply[1] from his Minister Weatherill for among other things, Gambling, 
> basically saying nothing in two typewritten pages.   The nub of the 
> nothingness though is that "generally, open source software is not yet seen 
> by the marketplace to be suitable for fundamental business functions."   In 
> part this is because the Commonwealth Government "has not promulgated a 
> specific policy on agency use of OSS and will not be rushing to do so."
> 
> I infer that is a "gamble" on Microsoft as being the stayer.   If I felt it 
> worthwhile, I'd give him a serve but why waste the energy?
> 
> Cheers,
> Denis
> 
> [1] A couple of days after sending the e-mail, I had a 'phonecall asking 
> for my postal address because they "could not reply by e-mail!"   Ahhh... 
> the technology.   Maybe I should put my mechanical skills to use and offer 
> my services to them as a sharpener of quill pens?   Typewriter repairer?
> 
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