Canada's own DMCA

[Rob Sutherland]

On Wed, 04 May 2005 21:23:28 -0400
David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:53:03PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Rob Sutherland wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>but I notice that Jack Layton is still running IIS :-)
> >>>      
> >>>
> d'ya think maybe Jack is the leader of the NDP and a webmaster, in his
> spare time ?

Nope - I think he's a waste of skin, actually. I just think it's a shame that 
the party that talks about being the opposition to all that is corporate etc.,
is paying out when it doesn't need to. 
  
> >
> And probably has bigger fish to fry. A friend and co-worker, who is
> linux nut and also an active NDP member, found an opportunity to corner
> Jack and talk to him about open source software. After listening
> intently for two minutes, the "light came on" and Jack said "sounds like
> socialist software !" He's heard of it, he get's it, his website ain't
> broken, so he's not fixin' it.

I'd say W2K is broken from the word go, myself. Look, if Layton or any other 
Canadian politician took this issue seriously they would be making public 
statements and doing something. It's good that's getting input from people
and I know there are a lot of Linux types in the NDP, but if even a supporter 
of his can't point to anything he's said in public, how seriously are we supposed
to take him on the issue? Look at what's going on in South America

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/10/south_america_open_source/

I mean, these people are actually trying to make FLOSS a real part of their 
public IT infrastructure - something I doubt the NDP is going to advocate 
anytime soon. 

Rob 

 


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