[wellylug] Green Party's Microsoft web site

Wood Brent pcreso at pcreso.com
Thu Aug 19 08:09:32 NZST 2004


Hi y'all...

Following from Chris's expose via netcraft, I emailed Nandor about the
discrepancy between the Green Party's Open Source policy & it's practice, FYI,
here is his reply.... 

Brent Wood


--- Nandor Tanczos <Nandor.Tanczos at parliament.govt.nz> wrote:

> Subject: RE: Open Source software
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:05:35 +1200
> From: "Nandor Tanczos" <Nandor.Tanczos at parliament.govt.nz>
> 
> Tena koe Brent,
> 
> Thanks for your email.  There are two answers to your question, but firstly I
> want to acknowledge that this is an issue we are aware of, concerned about
> and working on.  
> 
> The first answer to your question is that we are in the process of moving
> greens.org.nz over to our new linux servers.  We have been working on that
> process for a while, and the generous efforts of our volunteers means that
> the transfer is almost complete.  The second answer to your question is that
> we had our campaign site in the last election (www.votegreen.org.nz) running
> on a linux platform, and we have another site about to be launched which is
> run entirely off linux.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback, it's always nice to know that there are people out
> there making sure we stick to our principles.
> 
> JaH Guide
> Nándor




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