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

[Jethro carr]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:26 +1300, David Murray wrote:
> 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...?

read above to find your answer.


> 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.

Act was simply an example of a party - do I really have to list just
about every single political party?? Note the words I used "targeting
parties LIKE act".

Anyway, this thread is huge enough as it is, without us starting to
argue over NZ politics. Please, let's keep focused on the issues at
hand.


-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
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