[wellylug] Very Important: Meeting of 13th Feb 2005

David Murray newslists at electronincantation.net.nz
Thu Feb 16 10:26:40 NZDT 2006


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Jethro carr wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 20:35 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:30:55AM +1300, Jethro carr wrote:
>>>> Also hook up to the Green community - especially with Nandor speaking
>>>> for Open Source, perhaps we should help expose Greens to what's going
>>>> on?
>>>
>>> I don't belive that having Nandor's support is beneficial. Nandor is
>>> known for being "out-of-there" and having his support deters many people
>>> (especially businesses) from seeing Linux as mainstream.
>>
>> That's not especially relevant. The Green Party have an official line on
>> Open Source, and they've chosen Nandor as the spokesman. Don't ignore
>> the message because you don't like the messenger.
>
> I didn't say that I'm ignoring the message - I'm saying that a lot of
> people will.


Such as...? People who vote for ACT??

I think you'll find that there are more people with at least moderate 
support for the Green party than at least moderate support ACT - even tho' 
under MMP you only get to choose one party.


Regards

David Murray




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