Re: [ossig] can the ossig community help to do something +ve ?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Imran William Smith wrote:

> 2) put pressure on  MDTCA to raise awareness that open source is an
> alternative

this is harder done than said. MDTCA (and by extension the government)
keeps saying that by pushing open source, we also hurt businesses who're
dependent on closed source. the main problem here is the lack of a
commercial entity for open source which can present it's business case. as
such, they'll be unlikely to push open source publicly, though they will
try to go after the pirates and pirated users.

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh@alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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