[wellylug] Green Party's Microsoft web site

Rob Giltrap rob at ubietygroup.com
Thu Aug 19 10:25:22 NZST 2004


Now I guess we'll have to work on National.

I have previously informed National that their website did not render 
correctly in Mozilla due to some funny IE coding and that has since been 
corrected when the redesigned the site.

Their new site designers www.enlighten.co.nz are however a MS shop

Rob.

Wood Brent wrote:

>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.... 
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>Brent Wood
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>--- Nandor Tanczos <Nandor.Tanczos at parliament.govt.nz> wrote:
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>>Subject: RE: Open Source software
>>Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:05:35 +1200
>>From: "Nandor Tanczos" <Nandor.Tanczos at parliament.govt.nz>
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>>Tena koe Brent,
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>>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.  
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>>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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