This is not a spur of the moment action. Several years ago the NSW ALP had an open meeting regarding open source and more importantly open standards. Yes open standards, it is considerably more important than open source. Open standards span closed and open source and allow us to get on with business.
Anyway, two years ago Della Bosca frankly admitted he did not know much of open source let alone linux, yet he was prepared to learn. To be honest he represents what we want. A politician who knows their limitations but is not afraid to ask. The result is a favourable movement towards open standards, which I believe is the way for governments to go.
Three cheers for della bosca, he may not understand it but he is working for a better open world.
My wife's family hade an interesting identity crisis. For a period of a year my mother in law shared the same name and the same address as her sister in law. (ie Her brother married a woman with the same first two names). This resulted in two women with the same name at the same address. This caused many problems with government departments, such as.
Electoral rolls. In Australia it is compulsory to enroll, but it is illegal to register more than one or to vote more than once. The electoral roll only looks at names and addresses.
Jury duty. Runs on the same system. Which one has to go to court?
There were a few more but confusion reigned supreme until my mother in law married!
PB have acutely felt the competition from PC manufacturers that could customise each machine as it is assembled. This was quite apparent about 15 months ago when I commissioned a system to allow customised builds on one of their production lines in Sacramento.
Obviously the component quality bit them as the same staff using the same QA proceedures build the NEC PCs.
I wonder about the NEC machines build at the same plant, will they move to an alternate site (I think the NEC laptops are made elsewhere).
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This is not a spur of the moment action. Several years ago the NSW ALP had an open meeting regarding open source and more importantly open standards. Yes open standards, it is considerably more important than open source. Open standards span closed and open source and allow us to get on with business.
Anyway, two years ago Della Bosca frankly admitted he did not know much of open source let alone linux, yet he was prepared to learn. To be honest he represents what we want. A politician who knows their limitations but is not afraid to ask. The result is a favourable movement towards open standards, which I believe is the way for governments to go.
Three cheers for della bosca, he may not understand it but he is working for a better open world.
My wife's family hade an interesting identity crisis. For a period of a year my mother in law shared the same name and the same address as her sister in law. (ie Her brother married a woman with the same first two names). This resulted in two women with the same name at the same address. This caused many problems with government departments, such as.
Electoral rolls. In Australia it is compulsory to enroll, but it is illegal to register more than one or to vote more than once. The electoral roll only looks at names and addresses.
Jury duty. Runs on the same system. Which one has to go to court?
There were a few more but confusion reigned supreme until my mother in law married!
PB have acutely felt the competition from PC manufacturers that could customise each machine as it is assembled. This was quite apparent about 15 months ago when I commissioned a system to allow customised builds on one of their production lines in Sacramento.
Obviously the component quality bit them as the same staff using the same QA proceedures build the NEC PCs.
I wonder about the NEC machines build at the same plant, will they move to an alternate site (I think the NEC laptops are made elsewhere).