[Lancaster] Front page Citizen Article

[max]

Hi All

I've been feeding John Whitelegg information, case studies and F/OSS arguments 
for the past couple of months. The article is typically confusing and of poor 
journalistic standard, so it's not surprising that they don't report that 
John's pushing for the council to use Star Office, and look at F/OSS 
potential generally.

I've offered John a general introductory chat about Free Software use and the 
ideas behind it, and he seems keen to take this further.

Max

On Friday 10 Dec 2004 14:05, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> May I suggest all those with a penchant for advocacy avail themselves of a
> copy of this weeks Citizen. One of the front page articles "Close the Gates
> call" reports on a suggestion by Lancaster's Green Party to remove
> Microsoft software from council computers and replace it with "open source"
> software.
>
> The article mentions Sun Microsystems and thus my guess is that they are
> talking about the "Java Desktop System" rather than Solaris (which Sun are
> talking about opening) which is in fact Linux.
>
> I guess it would be a good idea for us to spend some time soon getting the
> next generation of the folly's systems up and running and arrange a meeting
> with this bright fellow (whom goes by the name of Councillor John
> Whitelegg), or at least draw attention to it's existance?
>
> Martyn