[plug] what is up with this document guys???

Milan Pospisil pospim at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 09:52:53 WST 2006


On 1/24/06, Tomasz Grzegurzko  wrote:
> Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
> > The department of justice?
> > Well they should at least make forms like this in a non-proprietrary format.
>
> You're kidding right? Anytime you even use the word open source in
> government circles people think you're foaming at the mouth.

I second that one! The usual argument would be: "Oh 95 % of the
computer users can't have it wrong..."
That gives you some indication what sort of intellectual heavyweights
is running the show...

> http://www.opensource.wa.gov.au/ is a bit of a joke really; there's no
> govt department really actively interested in OSS (besides the odd linux
> boxes in the backends..)
>
> Tomasz
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