Re: [chat] Re: Federal Open Source Legislation Democrats to introduce IT Bill

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:28:27AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> On 11 Jul 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> 
> > If by "OSS" they actually mean the software, then I agree. But there is
> > a *very* strong argument that all government documents should be held in
> > an open format. It is totally unacceptable that access to public
> > documents should be at the whim of a foreign monopoly. I believe that
> 
> That is very, very true.  I think there's been policies like this elsewhere
> (somewhere in South America, I think, although I may be getting my Chinas
> and Perus all muddled).  In the South Oz case, though, I'm pretty sure
> they're mandating OSS - the software.

You may not be aware that the senator from Peru that was making a lot of
noise about the use of OSS in government was shut up with some bucks
from Microsoft...  AFAIK the OSS noise there is over (I'm not from Peru,
but very near).

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Las cosas son buenas o malas segun las hace nuestra opinion" (Lisias)