Re: [fsf-community-team] [project seed] San Fransisco adopts a new software policy

[MBR]

My email may have come across as more pessimistic than I'd intended.  I was just trying to point out that celebrating this as a win is premature and would lead to complacency.  Microsoft will be somewhere in the background trying to pull strings.  FUD is not the only thing the SF activists will need to counter.  Politicians are motivated by many things other than the wellbeing of their constituency, and Microsoft will undoubtedly use that, either directly as they did in Mass. or indirectly as they did when they quietly arranged for BayStar Capital to fund SCO to the tune of about $100 million.

If it were possible to get some opinion pieces in the SF Comical or the Examiner warning of the sort of attacks that might be expected, it might be a good idea to do that as a pre-emptive strike.

Mark Rosenthal

Simon Bridge wrote:

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 00:22 -0500, MBR wrote:
  

I wish San Francisco luck.  They're going to need it!
                        Mark Rosenthal
    

Lets not rely on luck then ;)
Lets rally the San Fran activists to this cause.
Close monitoring and active lobbying has worked well to counter FUD and
dirty dealing. Its not as hard as it looks.