an opportunity in today's KC star

[Don Erickson]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, David Nicol wrote:

> On 9/23/05, Don Erickson <derick at zeni.net> wrote:
>> If sombody were to trojan a keylogger onto the
>> machine, then they might be able to tell how someone voted, or even,
>> heaven forbid, total up the actual votes  [and determine a number
>> that does not match the official results.]

My expressed concern was that somebody might discover the actual vote 
total.

It certainly looked like satire from this chair...


> Composing lucid arguments for mandating open-source ("how far
> behind Australia are we willing to lag, in basic freedoms? We cannot
> afford to have a freedom gap!") can be fun...

This argument looks more like an appeal to national pride and emotion, but 
that seems to be what sells these days.  Lucid arguments can only have an 
effect on lucid people.  Everyone else you're going to have to bribe, and 
the closed-source advocates have more money than you.


Regards,

-Don, realist.