Dean Michael Berris wrote: > FOSS has nothing to do with "the sanctity of the public's right to > access public information". ANY government document is _public > information_.
Well, if your document happens to be in a format which not everyone can use thanks to the fact that it's in a proprietary format for which few people can afford the program to read it, then so much for it being public information. "Yes, it's public information, here's the document. Now go pay Microsoft 500 US dollars for a copy of MS Office 2003 so you can read it." Or are you so daft as to advocate people use an unlicensed copy of Microsoft Office just so they can read government documents, which SHOULD be public information? And I thought the government is trying to be serious about enforcing copyright law. We don't need Microsoft, or any other proprietary software company, charging tolls for what should be free access to information published by our government. -- We must remember that we have more power than our enemies to worsen our fate. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
