[Linux-bruxelles] Re: Campagne logiciel libre dans l'education

[Pettiaux Nicolas]

Le Mardi 18 Juin 2002 22:07, Herman Bruyninckx a écrit :

> > The people from Agoria are acting in the Region of Brussels AGAINST the
> > law proposal to use free software in the administration. Under their
> > auspices,  6 large companies (M$, Telindus, Oracle, Compaq, and 2 others)
> >  have written a common to the president of the parliament and many
> > ministers to vote AGAINST.
>
> This is very bad news... Is there public information about this fact
> available somewhere?

Not that I know of. I have received a copy of the letter that I'll make 
public.

> > So having a good hear from inside Agoria is very important.
>
> I'm sure these technical people have _nothing_ to decide when it comes
> to make political statements for their company or organisation...

Probably not, but they can _act_ by creating a small framework, even 
informal, supporting companies that sells services around OSS/FS and show 
that this makes economical sense, and build a reflexion around that inside 
agoria based on facts.

Nicolas
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