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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@mail.com>
  To  : <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:53:44 +1030

RE: Bank Goes to Linux (hint, hint NAB et al)

> > is this like the UnaBomber's manifesto? hmmm...
>
> Does that have a URL?

yah -- www.google.com (like most things :)

<snip>

> Yes, but it's not real. Can you determine, or guess who might be

"not real"?

> stopping the various pieces going open source?

reasons I have heard given:

Our code is not good enough to open source. (very very true)
We want to maintain control over the direction of our code -- if we OS it,
we may lose control.
No-one else wants our code anyway, so we would be putting effort in (to
implement open source) with no benefit, as no-one else would contribute.
and so on...

Note that there are good reasons why each of these is wrong, and I've tried,
but no-one really cares (and in reality, why should they?)...

rr

PS do you do anything apart from post to this (and your other
well-publicised) list(s)? Sometimes I think I spend too much time on here,
but ...

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