On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, alan c wrote:
> Alistair Crust wrote:
>> Similar idea to the bill referenced in:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peruvian_opensource_nightmare/
>>
>> a very good read !
>
> absolutely. I chanced across it recently and even though it took ages
> to read (long) it was quite riveting!
Indeed, that is a very interesting article that I hadn't seen before -
thank you for pointing it out. Although I wasn't really suggesting that
the government should never use propriatory software - the petition was
only intended to cover code explicitly developed for government projects.
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