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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:34:37 +1030

Re: Good news maybe ?? IT Minister

Glen Turner wrote:

> Richard Russell wrote:
> 
>>2) That major Government IT contracts are often exclusive, to the
>>detriment of competition.
>>
> 
> This isn't going to fly.  Government departments need to made
> exclusive contracts for efficiency (eg: at the help desk, in
> sysadmin, etc).
> 
> It would be better to simply make the Minister aware of
> the potential of open source software to save significant
> licensing fees.
 

Hmmm, I would be careful of suggesting that the only benefit of Open 
Source is an opportunity to save on licencing fees.

I think that government should be/will be interested in the significant other arguments. I am sure that Labour would be interested in the 'Knowledge Nation' aspects of open source, at the very least.


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