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sydney-computer-support writes "The Greens in New Zealand who advocate the use of OSS are upset about a Novell contract because it doesn't support open source. The article mentions the greens spokeperson saying
the contract "cleared the path for government agencies to adopt and expand their use of non-proprietary software" -- failing to note that Novell is a company offering proprietary versions of OSS."
"Why should I not be able to access a government website because I use Firefox."
.PDF format, even though the Acrobat Reader is free? By the way, Microsoft has a free Word document reader (last I checked) as well. Your objection seems to be more ideological than practical.
Certainly that's poor design, but I don't that would pass the legal definition of "inaccessible". Now if isn't compliant with Section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act, feel free to file suit.
"No government documents should ever be in a proprietary format."
So you object to the government publishing documents in
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Agreed. This guy is just pissed off that his favorite convicted monopolist is not going to get a free ride from his government.
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The funny thing is he can only back up his view of how things out to be by attacking the people instead of the issue and using paid for reports and studies as counter points. But this seems to be his MO:
http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id
google & sun CEOs belittled
http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id
patching windows cost less than patching open source, MS funded report
http://www.nbr.co.nz/search/search_article.asp?id
linux growth slows, business model weakens
Perhaps he has just had too much koolaid.