[H-GEN] Legislation to support open source software.

[Harry Phillips]

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Ewan Edwards wrote:
> 
> Good morning All,
> 
> I have been asked to circulate, for comment and information, a draft of a Bill 
> to be presented to the Parliament of South Australia by Ian Gilfillan from 
> the Australian Democrats.  

By who?

> 
> This is a revised version of a Bill that didn't gain sufficient support due to 
> the efforts of political lobbyists.

Don't tell me MS have Aussie politicians in their pocket as well.

> 
> The document is in the form of a 105kb PDF file.  I thought it not appropriate 
> to post the file directly to this list.  So, I'm offering to forward the 
> original email to anyone who may be interested in reading or making comment 
> on it.  Don't be frightened to ask, its only just over two pages of reading.

Why not post a link to the PDF document? If you don't have anywhere to 
do that I can upload it to my web server and will post a link for you.

> 
> Please respond to me directly rather than to the list.
> 

I thought my comments could go to the list, but could you send me the 
PDF as well?

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Regards,
Harry Phillips
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     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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