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DATE | 2004-11-22 |
FROM | Contrarian
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Upcoming Hearings by the Committee on Technology
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From owner-hangouts-destenys-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Nov 22 02:10:52 2004 X-UIDL: bkO!!:b1!!nRV"!h6\!! Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAM7AqqG004310 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:52 -0500 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Submit) id iAM7ApCX004309 for hangouts-destenys; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:51 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangouts-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from bsd4.nyct.net (mail-out.nyct.net [216.139.141.2]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.11/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id iAM7ApSN004304 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:51 -0500 Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (bsd1.nyct.net [216.139.147.7]) by bsd4.nyct.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAM7As2K078650 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adrba-at-nyct.net) Received: from localhost (adrba-at-localhost) by bsd1.nyct.net (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id iAM7AsLX027425 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:54 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: bsd1.nyct.net: adrba owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 02:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: Contrarian To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [hangout] Re: Upcoming Hearings by the Committee on Technology in Government of the New York City Council Repost In-Reply-To: <6167434.1100875381265.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun-at-exchange.concord-hs.org> Message-ID: <20041122020844.C27152-at-bsd1.nyct.net> References: <4199376E.692B0A49-at-council.nyc.ny.us> <20041116013454.GA13746-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <2655456.1100572988152.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun-at-exchange.concord-hs.org> <2526969.1100796704580.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun-at-exchange.concord-hs.org> <20041118235049.R34367-at-bsd1.nyct.net> <6167434.1100875381265.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun-at-exchange.concord-hs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hangouts-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Contrarian List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Keywords: X-UID: 39203 Status: RO Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 25
> > > > > > On Monday, November 22, 2004 at 1 PM in the 14th Floor > > > > > > Hearing, 250 Broadway, the Committee on Technology in > > > > > > Government, chaired by Council Member Gale A. Brewer, jointly > > > > > > with the Committee on Housing and > > > > > > Buildings, chaired by Council Member Madeline Provenzano, will > > > > > > hold hearings...
> well one of the topics on the agenda is using city funds to encourage > purchase of inexpensive computers for residents of low income housing.
> I cant think of any computers as inexpensive as those Sams Club > computers that come with SuSe pre installed we can make a good case for > those computers to run GNU/Linux.
Tonight the consensus was that it would be more feasible to make the case for Free Software on Dell/IBM/major mfr. hardware, because the city already has contracts with these companies.
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