[Gllug] Blair gets into bed with Gates

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

I am not sure that standing outside with few placards is going to bother 
Bill or Tony that much. :-(

What I believe would be more useful is for us to campaign via email or 
letter to your MPs (if not a cowboy on the circle A ranch) that amongst 
the M$ monopoly there is an official Open source pilot scheme properly 
monitored by the UK audit office and for what it is worth parliamentary 
committee.

I very much doubt that at this point that any of the Linux Distros are 
geared up to running the NHS's IT infrastructure but surely if the Red Hat,
  Suse and even Debian cooperated they could manage a pilot scheme to prove 
that the Linux/GNU option is the best.

Any one on the list helping or working for a Linux distro like to respond?

peace Jim

On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 08:28 PM, William Palfreman wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Alain Williams wrote:
>>
>>> I have just heard that Bill G is coming over to make an agreement with
>>> Tony B to roll out XP to the entire UK Govt on 6 December.
>>
>>> What can we do about it ?
>>
>> If we find out where they are meeting, why not show up outside?
>
> Both you and Tushar have mentioned this.  Thing is in the current
> climate things like this are totally top secret because of the threat of
> terrorism.  I suppose a few people know, but they are normally pretty
> good at keeping this kind of thing secret.  I think it would be fun to
> wind them up, but I think we would have a job finding it first.  You
> would need a newspaper contact probably.
>
> Regards,
> Bill.
>
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