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

[David Murray]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Jethro carr wrote:

> 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.

Since when have "businesses" ever been described as "people"? And When did 
"businesses" get the vote?


>> 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".

Isn't ACT an extremist single-issue (pro commercial anarchy) party? What 
other political parties like ACT are around?


> 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.

Yes - lets. I wasn't arguing over politics.


Regards

David Murray