I believe Bruce Perens is too tightly affiliated with the FSF. The FSF
is not the right group for this job, they are "Free Software Fanatics"
and too tightly coupled to their Philosophical agenda that all software
should be free. Other groups like OSI take a much more pragmatic view of
the issue, which is what is needed here - advocate Open Source and Open
Standards as a good solution, a better solution, often the best solution
for governments and others, but don't throw a hissy-fit if some stuff
isn't 100% free.
Jim Hartley
Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 07:50, John Pugh wrote:
>
>> Legislation is not the answer. Most government is open as open
>> source/standards. The answer is to form a open source advocacy group
>> (without affiliation to Bruce Perens)
>>
>
> What's wrong with Bruce Perens? I know absolutely nothing about him, so your
> parenthesized statement (or should I say Peren-thesized statement :-) made me
> curious.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
>
>
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