On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Schulz</b> <<a href="mailto:pschulz01@gmail.com">pschulz01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>3. Dealing with Businesses and Government.<br><br>How and who can Australian organisations deal with when it comes to<br>advice on free/libre open source stategic ICT policy planning and<br>development.<br><br>This is the first step that any large organisation will go though.
<br><br>Linux Australia is one such organisation and there are probably<br>others, but how can we put Ubuntu on the table for all the right<br>reasons (rather than a negotiation lever against Microsoft).<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>This statement concerns me greatly. I don't believe that it should be our groups role to act as a go between for Australian businesses. Surely this implies that organisations who come to us for advice about free/libre open source software would also be looking for contacts within the industry to make it happen. I think Rob is right, this smells fishier by the minute.
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Grant Galbraith<br><a href="mailto:manicka@ubuntu.com">manicka@ubuntu.com</a>