[oclug] Linux in the Ottawa Citizen

[daniel quinn]

not true
it's there
you just have to add the extra "}"
for some reason the email only put a link up to the second-to-last character.

On October 10, 2002 02:53 pm, Raymond Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:22:23PM -0400, Vic Gedris remarked:
> > I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the HUGE Linux / Open
> > Source article in today's Ottawa Citizen.  The whole cover and
> > a couple of pages of the Hi-Tech section are dedicated to this
> > article.
> >
> > Online version is here:
> > http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/specials/business/story.html?i
> >d={C50BA30E-BE66-48CB-B32C-609F488F49BC}
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vic
> >
> > Partial sample for those who may not be able to get it on the
> > web / print:
> >
> > A piece of the action Governments the world over spend
> > billions on Microsoft products and other proprietary software.
> > Open source advocates contend their wares are cheaper and
> > better. On one side of the tug of war is Bill Gates and other
> > entrepreneurial heavyweights who say their software is secure
> > and well-supported On the other side are grassroots techies
> > who contend that open source software (such as Linux) is more
> > adaptable, innovative and convenient
> >
> > Kate Heartfield The Ottawa Citizen
> >
> > Thursday, October 10, 2002 Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa
> > Citizen
> >
> > >From left, Joseph Potvin, Russell McOrmond, Claude Gagne,
> > >Richard
> >
> > Lessard and Glen Newton are members of GOSLING -- Getting Open
> > Source Logic Into Governments. As an informal research
> > network, the group is acknowledged and encouraged by the
> > Treasury Board Secretariat.
> >
> > (Bill Gates)
> >
> > (A penguin)
> >
> > A few years ago Joseph Potvin, an IT analyst at Public Works
> > and Government Services Canada, helped develop the federal
> > government's first custom open source software. Late last
> > month, he spoke to bureaucrats from the Treasury Board
> > Secretariat, explaining the benefits of open source.
> >
> > It's 5:30 on a warm, autumn Friday afternoon. Three men sit
> > with pints of Keith's in the Byward Market courtyard patio
> > behind the Blackthorn Café. They are three of the most
> > unassuming guys you'll ever see, in T-shirts, ball caps and
> > jeans. You might never guess that they comprise the Ottawa
> > vanguard of a global, tech-centred tug of war, with the
> > considerable coffers involved in government software spending
> > up for grabs.
> >
> > .......
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Vic Gedris           vic-at-gedris.org           http://vic.dyndns.org/
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Apparently the 'story is no longer available'  :(
>
> Cheers,
> Raymond