Canada's own DMCA

[David Thornton]

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>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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If I may.. Joseph Potvin is the man...

He presented last year at the real world linux conference and I was 
blown away. He get's it.
http://www.goslingcommunity.org/files/FCA_Mar04WkshpREPORT_Draft21aJun04XML.pdf

More:
http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/fap-paf/oss-ll/oss-ll_e.asp

Joseph works for pwgsc now  and it working toward adopting open 
standards .... but a
google://site:www.pwgsc.gc.ca "open source" doesn't yeild anything 
interesting.

Also:
http://www.goslingcommunity.org/

david


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