Open Source & Progressive Politics – Natural Allies

Came across this article while doing some unrelated searches.  It's short so I'll quote it in its entirety.  The cool thing?  It's from 2003!  I don't know what the Sask NDP uses these days but hopefully they've only expanded their use of open source technologies!  (The link back to the original NDP newsletter with three different mentions of open source/Linux is unfortunately broken so I can't see the original context.)

“Seems like the NDP in Saskatchewan are starting to notice OSS and GNU/Linux. This newsletter
contains not one or even two but three separate articles. Looks like
progressive movements, which are natural allies, are noticing Linux and
OSS in a more significant way. We need to start cranking up the
political machine to lobby the left, disability groups, educators,
civil liberties groups, and Government to make sure the attention keeps
growing.”



Oh, and I wonder how long I'll be able to keep doing posts that manage
to combine things of interest to the political junkies out there and
the library junkies (yes, they do exist!) as well?  Probably not long
to be honest.

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