[PLUG] The house bill, a possible problem...

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:48, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:08, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:16:13PM -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> > > I'll concede that switching to OSS might impact jobs in Washington. 
> > > However, we are concerned about jobs in *Oregon* and I suggest using
> > > some of the present IT budget to hire *Oregonians* rather than mailing
> > > the check off to Redmond.
> > 
> > Exactly.  Where would you rather have your schools IT dollars going?
> > Redmond, or someone like me, who would be plenty happy with the
> > sub-par pay school district IT types get?
> 
> You know, I just had a fabulous, and only slightly unethical business
> idea. 
> 
> Everybody on the list who's unemployed and has a clue or three, we get
> together and form a Linux Migration Consultancy. We offer to do free
> consultations on the cost of a BSA-sponsored audit for your company. We
> offer to help you transition to fully open source so that you no longer
> need to worry about such a thing. And we offer support contracts.
> 
> What makes us different from the competition? Well, the BSA takes
> anonymous tipoffs.
> 
> You may have heard, recently, a guitar-string making company was
> hostiley audited by the BSA and the owner chose to change to Linux in
> response to how he was treated, and says he has saved a huge amount of
> money and that he has not had to make one support call.
> 
> I'm not actually serious about the unethical, but I wonder if we
> couldn't make a consultancy out of all the unemployed tech-heads we've
> got on this list. Anybody want to bite?
> 
> Jeff
> 

As far as ideas go.

It is GREAT....

You have my support....







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Marvin J. Kosmal
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