On 05/02/07, Caroline Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > London School of Puppetry wrote: > > On 05/02/07, Benjamin Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 05/02/07, gord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:44 +0000, Benjamin Webb wrote: > >>> > >>>> It seems as if schools in France will be distributing Open Source > >>>> Software - http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707. > >>>> Its a shame that our government isn't trying to do anything like this. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> and they won't unless we keep up the offensive :) try writing to your MP > >>> benjamin i think most of us have had positive experiences doing that. > >>> > >>> > >> I have written once to my MP, about the Early Day Motion. He seemed > >> fairly supportive of Free Software, but couldn't sign the Motion > >> because of his position. > >> > > > > Because of his position?????? it's because of his position you wrote > > to him. Actually, I think we should all have a note of the names and > > addresses of the MPs of everyone on the forum. > > > I think members of the government (even all the way down to PPSes etc) > are not allowed (by protocol only I think) to sign early day motions. > It'll be his position as pps to the deputy minister for paperclips > that'll stop him signing it, not his position as an MP. > > My MP is Harriet Harman - she is a minister and won't be able to sign > early day motions. > > I'm not sure a generally supportive response means anything. They have > standard letters which they send out on these occasions - they don't > want to alienate you but they don't commit themselves to anything. > > Caroline (secretlondon)
I had released it wasn't the fact he was an MP. You're probably right about the positive response as well. However, a possibly standard postivie response is better than a negative one I guess. What about my UK-Linux question. Is there any "official" overal site for Linux in the UK? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
