Re: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

From: hartr@redhat.com
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 15:22:42 EST


On 14 Aug, Anthony Healy wrote:
> For example, our politicians sit back and glow that we're "early technology
> adopters." In fact, all the developed countries get fed this line in one way
> or another. It's part of international marketing.

The interesting point here is that whilst I was in the US working with
major IT companies (Red Hat's strategic partners), our acceptance of new
technology was about the only thing they knew about Australia.

So, just for once, maybe our pollies are right about this. However, it
is not because of anything the pollies have done that we are that way.
 

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