well, the green party anyway - Nandoor uses it. Perhaps we should get him to give a talk to the group? We might get something different than beer tho.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3529203&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general&thesecondsubsection= and here's the interesting bit (snipped from article): Like most alternative IT users, Tanzcos favours open source software and the Linux operating system. "I'm running Mandrake [a Linux distribution] on my Dell laptop because there are alternatives to products from Microsoft." Tanzcos says Mandrake is good to use, even if it does mimic the look of Microsoft's Windows, and would like the Government to ditch its use of Microsoft systems and move to Linux. He considers Microsoft a "scary company" and an evangelist of the thinking that people need new software all the time. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury "Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change." -- "Collateral Language" John Collins and Ross Glover ed.
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