Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 18, 2004 06:39 AM
Since when does anyone look to the UN for IT policy anyway?
Software decisions like these are usually made at the grassroots level. Trying to get the UN to agree on anything is futile, as it is not a true governmental body. It does not have any real power.
LUGs and other local FOSS groups are a more important factor in this kind of thing.
On a related note, I always find the BSA's involvement in this kind of stuff to be quite humorous. By their charter, you think that they would like OSS, because it means that folks aren't infringing on proprietary vendors. They show their true colors: As more of a PAC and strongarm group for the Proprietary vendors. Which is fine, but you just have to understand what they really stand for.
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The UN is irrelevant to this discussion anyway
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 18, 2004 06:39 AMSoftware decisions like these are usually made at the grassroots level. Trying to get the UN to agree on anything is futile, as it is not a true governmental body. It does not have any real power.
LUGs and other local FOSS groups are a more important factor in this kind of thing.
On a related note, I always find the BSA's involvement in this kind of stuff to be quite humorous. By their charter, you think that they would like OSS, because it means that folks aren't infringing on proprietary vendors. They show their true colors: As more of a PAC and strongarm group for the Proprietary vendors. Which is fine, but you just have to understand what they really stand for.
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