Census 2006 -- Linux is OK after all

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/14/06, Peter <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> What I was thinking was, how about a standard 'note' or 'letter of
> complaint' for such cases. Arguing the same issue over and over again is
> getting old. The letter could be put on a website and anyone needing it
> would download it, add his or her comments, sign it, and forward it to
> whomever it may concern. The letter should be *very* short, perhaps
> containing a link to an online page describing the problem (in general)
> in more words (but still very few, less than two pages).

It seems to me that there could be some value in doing this in a
further sophisticated fashion so as to both make this more clearly
individalized, as well as to provide a way of reporting when it works
out, and when it doesn't.

After all, this is but one "campaign;" there are very many instances
of organizations making this sort of mistake.

If you head over to <http://brokenwebappsforlinux.info/>, and fill in
some information as to where it broke, this could allow...

- Finding how others have tried to work around the given issue
- Discovering how many others have reported the same issue, and
perhaps *somewhat* unifying the responses so that there is some
consistency as to what problem is reported
- Providing a list of "Kudos" where there can be a list of cases where
(like with the census) lobbying went somewhere, in order to praise
those that listen, and to demonstrate that it happens
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`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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