Forwarded with permission. I believe Jonathan's group is generally allied with these folks on this issue: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975578.html Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04377.html -Declan --- Subject: OSS, Bush, Asia Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:00:14 -0500 From: "Jonathan Zuck" <jzuckat_private> To: <declanat_private> Hey, since when is objecting to language of support the same as opposed? What the hell is wrong with wanting to support your domestic software industry EVEN including Microsoft and tens of thousands others. It s not like all of other proprietary software firms are big fans of OSS mandates in governments here and abroad. We need to make a decision as a society if we are truly out to destroy the software industry and are prepared for the consequences. Who s going to put food on the table of the OSS developer if not the commercial software companies that employ them? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Jan 29 2003 - 23:13:27 PST