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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why not do some guerilla investigating, and
get a rough estimate of how much cost is going into the current LAN, and what
the savings would be under LINUX, and prepare a presentation for the local
gov't body's board of administrators if you get any more grief about it from the
LAN admin mgmt?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:50:11AM -0600, Glenn
McDavid wrote:<BR><BR>> Quite right. Furthermore, he may not be in a
position to advocate<BR>> Linux there. I work for another local
government and I know somebody<BR>> there who got reprimanded for advocating
Linux and was forbidden from<BR>> giving a presentation about Linux at the
Departmental education forum.<BR>> The LAN admin management will not discuss
any alternative to Microsoft.<BR>> A few of us meet quietly sometimes and try
to think of ways around this<BR>> formidable obstacle
:-(><BR><BR>Hrm. Not to sow the seeds of discord, but how "forbidden"
are we<BR>talking? If one were a big enough troublemaker, one might be
able to<BR>turn this into a First Amendment issue. I wonder if PFAW or
ACLU<BR>might not have something to say about it. <BR><BR>I raise this
issue because you say it's a government agency. They<BR>obviously do have
some control over what people are allowed to bring<BR>to meetings, but it might
be possible to show that if you define the<BR>issue enough, they have violated
his right to express an opinion.<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>