Question for TLUGgers: How can Canada take a leading role in FOSS?

[Joseph Kubik]

Same subject, but another thought on it:
Why does it matter what software brand our government uses?
Sometimes it does, and sometimes it does not. 
1. The government in power holds the responsibility to use the money we send 
the as effeciently as possible. Our job is to police them better and not let 
the money we earned so hard go to waste.
2. If someone at the government sends you a document you cannot open because 
it's in a proprietary format, I think you are within your right to require 
they re-send it in an open format, or the government needs to provide each 
person a license for the format.
 
Why does it matter what OS some other company chooses? It probably doesn't 
most of the time.
However, I'm all for billing people that send me virus and spam. If I ran an 
ISP I would be very strict about such things, and would monitor for virus 
type activity very carefully.

I do know some contractors who only provide Linux based services. They seem to 
be doing just fine here in TO and there is plenty of business. So, this area 
still isn't doing too badly.

-Joseph-
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