[Sussex] Microsoft fails to comply

[paul at paulgraydon.co.uk]

Interesting.. I wasn't expecting it to be the Green Party.
I guess it does make sense, overall when you look at their references to
TNCs (Trans-National Companies), given that they are the main causes of
lots of hassles in their unrelented push for profits.



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Geoffrey J Teale
Sent: 19 March 2005 19:16
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Subject: Re: [Sussex] Microsoft fails to comply

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."


-- 
Geoff Teale
Cmed Technology    || Free Software Foundation
gteale at cmedltd.com || tealeg at member.fsf.org

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