[ILUG] [A little OT] the OpenIreland response to Minister Hanafin

[John Allman]

Paul O'Malley wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I thought you might like to see what others are saying to the Minister
>on foot of comments made. I trust you will find it interesting.
>
>http://www.openireland.org/oi_blog/mary_hanafin/file_view
>
>The letter that was sent was in the form of a PDF. 
>  
>
I'm seriously impressed by this letter. I feel it hit the correct tone  
- there was no attack and it came accross more as an attempt to be 
helpful to her in her future work. The only thing i would say is that 
the paragraph dealing with open standards could do with expansion. I 
feel pointing out more specific and easier to understand examples of the 
lack of open standards in microsoft (.doc word format being an obvious 
one) and perhaps the issue of microsofts patents would be a good idea. 
Open standards is a great goal but there are glaring examples of how 
microsoft are trying to stop interoperability and not promote it and i 
feel it would be helpful to point them out.

Again, i applaud the work of the openireland team and i feel this letter 
might be helpful to look at before drafting up an official ILUG response 
(which i guess should really be sent soon if at all...)

Thanks for the link paul

John