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Re: [News] Canadian MP's Receive FLOSS CD's

  • Subject: Re: [News] Canadian MP's Receive FLOSS CD's
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 03:44:23 +0100
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"Bill Hopkins" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Roy Shysterwich wrote:
>> Open source advocates step up government lobby efforts
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> GOSLING movement sends out CDs to 308 MPs in awareness
>>> campaign
>> http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=40933&cid=3
>>
>
> "Mike Richardson, principal of an Ottawa-based IT consultancy and a GOSLING 
> member, said volunteers will be following up individually with MPs in their 
> area to gauge their familiarity and interest in open source issues. GOSLING 
> was not expecting a deluge of e-mails, he said, or even for MPs to put a 
> strange CD received through the mail into their office computer."
>
> "If they take the CD out of the package and use it as a coaster, we consider 
> that to be a win," he said."

And so would the COLA gang : that is another "install". Ask Lapdog Collie.

>
> So, if I take Linux Format and wipe my arse with it, that's a win as well.
>

Yup.

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