On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:17, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:36, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Mike MacCana">
> > 
> > > But a lot of people, including a good portion of Linux users (maybe even
> > > most) have no idea what Open Source means other some vague notion that it
> > > can be $free to acquire and comes with source code. This can include not
> > > Open Source software such as QMail, Windows, or Pine.
> > 
> In the context of the ACT initiative (which is, I think, where this
> started):
> 
> d) open standards for the storage of public documents

Which is (personally) the only thing which needs legislation about.

And has nothing to do with Open Source (other than helping competition
which may improve things for OSS apps).

Mike\
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