[CoLoCo] Open Source in Politics [was: Obama, education, IT, and Money]

[David Overcash]

I think it is a valid (and non-political) conversation to have relating
governments adopting Linux to the overall country's adoption of the same.
It's not necessarily a politically motivated call to ask your
representatives to consider Open Source software for government sponsored
programs.  If you're going to advocate for Linux in businesses or
classrooms, you might as well add your 2 cents to the debate regarding the
government itself.

Hopefully that, in itself, wasn't political.  If it was, sorry!  :-)

Cheers,
David

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not to be the party pooper here, but i hate anything to do with
> politics, and would appreciate that you mark anything to do with it as
> offtopic. I don't mind the other parts such as the education, and do
> realize your particular question cannot accurately be ripped from the
> politics part, but still. I find these kind of posts offensive and do
> not believe it appropriate to post them on the CoLoCo mailing list.
> I'm not entirely sure, but i think a few others have the same belief.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If there is to be any "hope" for the sanity and value of the investment,
> then YES, you had better talk to your representatives as well as those in
> the education bureaucracy who will cry out for those "main stream" assets.
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Jeffrey LePage <jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Jeffrey LePage <jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: [CoLoCo] Obama, education, IT, and Money
> >> To: ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-education at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:57 AM
> >> Forgive me while I dip into the world of politics.
> >>
> >> Some details of the proposed/planned stimulus package are
> >> starting to appear in the media.  I note 2 tech related
> >> bits:
> >> 1) improving school infrastructure, _including_ computers
> >> 2) free wireless internet
> >>
> >> What will happen? Will $billions be shipped off to MS and
> >> other large proprietary interests, with little accomplished
> >> except the expansion of existing monopolies?  Will Dell and
> >> MS carpet-bomb the schools of America with Vista PC's?
> >>
> >> Does the open source community have a plan?  Do I need to
> >> write my congressmen?
> >>
> >> There are numerous articles out there claiming that Obama
> >> is friendly to open source, but I'm not convinced.
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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