Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 22.12.2006 at 13:39 +0000, James Tait wrote: >> Essentially it's a fob-off. > > Cheeky bugger, isn't he?
OK, I get that this is hardly news, I mean he had to toe the line and politicians hide behind policy to avoid giving a straight answer to a question all the time. My question is what are we going to do about it? While reading through the statement I remember thinking "Oh, so all I need to do then is set up a free software consultancy." Then I went on to thinking that even if I did that, I'd still have to jump through hoops to become accredited -- sorry, an approved supplier -- and I'd still have to compete with the likes of Microsoft who have ample resource to be able to "deliver and support a comprehensive suite of technologies" and offer "open source solutions as part of a managed service". SMEs don't, and that's the point. I'd like to push Mr Johnson for a more direct response to these concerns rather than fobbing me (us) off with a canned reply. But is this something other people would be interested in seeing, and is it likely to get a real response? JT -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- James Tait, BSc | xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer and Free Software advocate | Mobile: +44 (0)7779 337596 ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
