Hope this circulates, not quite sure what email address I have to email!

For anyone that is interested the letter is at http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-012-26-OS-SM-LL .. Can't vouch for it's integrity! but it really wouldn't surprise me if MS put a stop to the original location @ http://www.pimientolinux.com/ ...

Anyways Alex

On 27-Dec-07 22:19:26, Wayne Stallwood wrote:

...

On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:59 +0000, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:

...

...

...

Hi Folks (and apologies to anyone who receives this via more than one route),

I have just enjoyed reading a letter, described as being sent from Peruvian Congressman David Villanueva Nuñez to Microsoft Peru, in response tgo Microsoft's objections to a Peruvian Govt Bill mandating open-source software for all public bureaux.

Interesting although am I the only person that is slightly alarmed by the authenticity of this given that the original sources seem to have vanished ? (the link in the story 404's and the frontpage of the same domain seems to be a standard cluster of random sponsored links)

Wouldn't be the first time the reg have failed to check their sources :)

No, you're not! (Note that I wrote "described as ... "). The Register web page itself said "purportedly from Peruvian Congressman ... ".

Nonetheless, if it was not written by a Peruvian Congressman to MicroSoft Peru, then I wish it had been! Just contemplating that possibility gives me a glow!

Cheers, Ted.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 27-Dec-07 Time: 22:53:16 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

_______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!