[Sussex] Microsoft fails to comply

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:16:26 +0000
Geoffrey J Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> I'm going to repeat my quiz question from last night (sorry if I
> missed an answer from anyone) - One party in the UK has Open Source
> software use as an item in it's manifesto.  Which party is it?
> 
> Here's a clue:
> 
>  "Government at all levels should promote adherence to IT
>  standards,particularly open standards, and the use of shareware and
>  OSS (Open Source Software) - note that economic theory suggests that
>  for optimal wealth creation goods should be priced at the "marginal"
>  cost of production - the cost of producing one more unit. This is
>  near zero for software, so wider use of OSS is highly economically
>  desirable. This is particularly so in developing countries, where
>  conventional pricing makes much legal software almost unaffordable.
> 
> The <PARTY NAME> strongly opposes software patenting. Copyright works
> well enough to protect IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). The flag of
> IPR must not be used to give more power to rich corporations while
> preventing the general use of useful cheap software."

LibDems?

Matt