I agree. There should be some body which can establish political consensus
among the FSF, the Open Source Initiative, the Apache foundation, the Mozilla
foundation, and other groups. Then, hire lobbyists to effect legislation on the
state and national levels.
Smitty
warren harris wrote:
> It is about time that LUGs organize on a national level to form some
> potical muscle.
>
> */Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>/* wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:49:10AM -0400, William Coulter wrote:
> > Did anybody read this about what MS did in Florida. I guess when
> you have
> > BILLIONS you have Millions of loyaler to look over everything in
> government.
> >
> > William
> >
> > http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
>
> Back when I attended SLUG meetings regularly, I met Roblimo -- nice guy.
> I'm not at all surprised he pursued this matter and wrote it up the way
> he did.
>
> I wish I could say I was surprised at this behavior from Microsoft
> lobbyists. I guess the next question is this: What can we do about it?
>
> --
> "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your
> hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the
> Lucid
>
>
>
>
> Warren Harris
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