linux in australian government

[Daniel McNamara]

Take a look at:

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57235,00.html

That gives a much better description of what Microsoft means by "open 
source". As always with Microsoft deals "The big print giveth and the 
small print taketh away"

Cheers

Daniel


Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:54:01AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
>>>I wonder what the MS speaker's gonna say.
>>
>>Exactly.  The seminar is specifically about OSS, an field of expertise of
>>which M$ are not, but they still manage to infiltrate one of their
>>_international_ VPs.  I wonder what her award in telivison has got to do
>>with OSS.
> 
> 
> Saw an article in yesterday's SMH stating that M$ are going to let
> governments have access to 95% of the source code in their products, in an
> effort to stem the tide of places who are pickup up OSS like Germany, China, 
> Peru and everyone else who thinks there are US Government backdoors in the 
> M$ products.
> 
> I suppose she will make a big fanfare and tell the Australian government that
> M$ can now be considered OSS for government use only...  Shudder..
> 
> Mark