Sickening shilling for MS by Ontario privacy commissioner

[Jamon Camisso]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 10/21/06, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:36:16 -0400
>> CLIFFORD ILKAY got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>>
>> > 1. Where is this government policy that is being developed around
>> > Microsoft's technologies in the context of this discussion?
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > 3. Who is dictating "the use of solutions provide by a single vendor
>> > (especially a foreign owned, convicted monopolist)"?
>> >
>> > 4. Who is overlooking "solutions based on open standards"?
>> >
>> > 5. Is this identity meta system a Microsoft technology or does
>> > Microsoft just happen to have an implementation of an open standard?
>>
>> Now that I'm reading Michael Geist's ( Canada Research Chair of
>> Internet and
>> E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, clearly one of your 'linux
>> fanboys' or a 'clod' or 'knee-jerk anti MS', or whatever) blog on
>> this, I do
>> believe David made some valid points.
> 
> Geist has some good points.
> 
> They happen also to be framed in a context that allows the likes of
> the privacy commissioner to (at least potentially) accept it
> constructively.
> 
> He doesn't make his points in a "cloddish" or "wild fanboyish" manner.
> 
> In order to affect government policy (which I would imagine OUGHT to
> be the point of this discussion), it's not nearly good enough to be in
> some sense "right" or "correct;" generating government policy requires
> that there be some capability to participate in the relevant
> organizational structures, which requires very different language from
> what we might "mouth off" with, here.
> 
> Merely saying "Microsoft Bad!" isn't anywhere *near* enough.  All
> that'll get you is that government-related folks will ignore you.

Who's involved in FSOSS at Seneca next weekend such that they can invite
the commissioner to participate?

Jamon
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